look what you've done

Installing MP3 Support seemed like something that should be so straight forward.
So straight forward that i wouldnt even write the blog realtime--i'd just do it and send up a note saying "yeah, installed these packages and now i'm rocking out to some Hot Rod Circuit. Done"
Didn't go like that.. so i googled "ubuntu mp3" and found a couple webpages just saying to install gstreamer package and all would be right. easy.
installed "gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (0.10.1-0ubuntu2) and got a message saying
X Error BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168
  Major opcode: 145
  Minor opcode: 3
  Resource id: 0x0
Failied to open device
All that and my MP3s still didn't play

okay.. lets go to the source https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats to see what they say... ah

Grr.. damn.. this looks easy and straight forward. it stated Audacity was a nice conversion program between MP3 and the non-propriatary OGG.. meh, might as well.. so i marked it in Synaptic and it waaanted to install:
audacity (1.2.4b-2ubuntu2)
libglib1.2 (1.2.10-10.1build1)
libgtk1.2 (1.2.10-18)
libgtk1.2-common (1.2.10-18)
libid3tag0 (0.15.1b-8)
libmad0 (0.15.1b-2.1)
libwxgtk2.4-1 (2.4.4.1.1ubuntu2)
*FECEPLOPPIE*
It didnt even install. it claimed that failed to open device shit.
okay... lets figure out..
a bit of searching and i find that it's due to some watcom devices in my xorg.conf... as per ubuntu, i commented it out and all will work... well i just did that and am about to restart.. i don't have faith for some reason.. wish me luck