Crashing (solved)

Unfortunately I've experienced crashing while I send transfers.. its happened twice so far.. both times it was after having been idle for many hours.. then I attempted to use the client to transfer. The first transfer was for 0.01.. it failed. but has removed from my total. and sits in a perpetual state of 0/unconfirmed.
After it had crashed.. I brought the cilent back up.. and it showed -0.01.. and the recipient had not received it. so I immediately sent a second transfer just to make sure it was reproducible.. The second I made for 0.02 as to make it easily identifiable.. it succeeded. I left the client alone for a day or so.. and had it "generating".
Then I made another transfer.. unfortunately I tried to transfer all of the funds.. and now they're all lost :-) awesome huh. It crashed in the same mannor. it Does display a message.. but I have not captured it. sorry.. When I get more funds I'll try and reproduce it, and capture the dialog.

I'm running Mandriva 2010.0 x86_64. all other transfers have gone great.. both offline recipients vs online.

$ ldd bitcoin
./bitcoin: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by ./bitcoin)
   linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
   libcrypto.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8 (0xf7585000)
   libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xf7177000)
   libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xf7171000)
   libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xf7167000)
   libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf7076000)
   libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xf704e000)
   libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf7031000)
   libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xf6ed0000)
   libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xf6ecb000)
   libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0xf6e29000)
   libXinerama.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXinerama.so.1 (0xf6e24000)
   libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0xf6e09000)
   libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xf6cd7000)
   libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0xf6c8f000)
   libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xf6c4d000)
   libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xf6b88000)
   libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xf6b6e000)
   libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0xf6b43000)
   libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 (0xf6b37000)
   libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xf6b31000)
   libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0xf6b13000)
   libcairo.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2 (0xf6a93000)
   libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 (0xf69eb000)
   libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0xf69c1000)
   libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xf698d000)
   libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xf6988000)
   librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xf697d000)
   libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xf6963000)
   /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7738000)
   libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xf6958000)
   libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0xf694f000)
   libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xf6944000)
   libXcomposite.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcomposite.so.1 (0xf693f000)
   libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xf692d000)
   libXdamage.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXdamage.so.1 (0xf6929000)
   libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xf691f000)
   libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xf6901000)
   libpcre.so.0 => /lib/libpcre.so.0 (0xf68d1000)
   libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0xf68be000)
   libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xf683c000)
   libpixman-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpixman-1.so.0 (0xf67d3000)
   libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0xf67bd000)
   libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xf667b000)
   libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xf6677000)
   libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf6670000)

Any ideas on capturing my limbo coins? Also ideas on preventing failed transfers in the future?
Thanks
Sam.