vlc window gray after apt-get upgrade

vlc was fine right after installing mint 13 xfce, but after apt-get upgrade, the vlc window isn't rendering properly.

if i pass a stream on the vlc commandline the sound starts right up, just the vlc window is funky. when the vlc window comes to the front, the titlebar and all the menu titles show but the rest of the window is mostly gray. as i pass the mouse over the menu titles, the menu title under the mouse shows, and the rest of the menu titles disappear. if i click on a menu, at first the whole menu displays, then as i move the mouse onto the menu, the one or two items under the mouse show, and the rest go gray.

other windows (eg firefox) are fine. i get the same vlc window problem under quantal.

i split this off from Bug #1071593, that one is a padsp related segfault, this one is the vlc window frozen problem.

$ apt-cache policy vlc
vlc:
  Installed: 2.0.1-4
  Candidate: 2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
  Version table:
     2.0.3-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/universe i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/universe i386 Packages
 *** 2.0.1-4 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$ uname -a
Linux mint 3.2.0-23-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 20:41:14 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux