BAH!
All I needed to do was reboot....Rhythmbox and VLC now both work(and VLC doesn't dim the monitor)...I'll update in a few minutes about streaming video though (I need to watch the Olympics!)
UPDATE: And now all of a sudden it stopped working again! I checked a test page to see if it would play WMV (which it didn't, and now it crapped out again!)
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