amarok 1.4.8 can't submit tracks to last.fm

In the last couple of days/weeks/months, amarok seemed to choke when trying to send tracks to last.fm to refresh my profile. This was very annoying. After quite a bit of searching and monkeywork grepping through log files, I found a workaround here.

The workaround isn't very elegant or scalable but, hell, it works.

The solution to the problem is:

1. Log into last.fm and change your password
2. Change the password in amarok
3. Profit