So the saga continues into the early morning...

Everything compiled rather easily, but to get the plugins to all work the way I wanted I had to add the following packages using apt-get:
libvisual-0.4-dev
libvisual-0.4
libmad0
libmad0-dev
libid3tag0-dev
libcdaudio-dev
libcdparanoia0-dev
libflac-dev
fftw3-dev
libexif-dev
libfaac-dev
libfaad2-0
libfaad2-dev
kdelibs4-dev

Some of this would likely have been installed had I used 'apt-get build-dep mythtv-plugins' but I didn't think that far ahead.

I also had to download and compile taglib.

MythTV wouldn't start the setup process until I added libqt3-mt-sql.

After that, I was able to setup my zap2it subscription inside MythTV (see the MythTV HOWTO for details) so it will download the TV listings for me.

The changes from my previous version (2 years old?) are significant. I still haven't finished configuring everything to my tastes yet, but I got mplayer stretching my mythvideo's to the full 16:9 aspect ratio. The Hauppauge remote still needs some work as well. I ended up having to compile lirc from sources, but more on that in my next post.