XMMS 1.2.10 on Mandrake 10.0

I tried to install XMMS 1.2.10 on my Mandrake 10.0 box and it does not
work. I cannot find any RPM for this version. MDK comes with XMMS 1.2.9
and it seems that the philosophty of the company is to make users wait
for the 10.1 release to have the new version. I will have to remove all
the Mandrake RPMs and recompile XMMS from source, but I find this methd
quite bad since it bypasses the RPM installation system. It would be a
great thing to have XMMS RPMS on the XMMS home page or at least links
pointing to working Mandrake RPMs. I tried many things from the Mandrake
side to get the XMMS packages and absolutely nothing works. Even though
I am a member of their MandrakeClub, I still do not have access to the
RPMs. Their URPMI system does not work because of a curl problem and no
FTP mirror is working, I just get a blank page on my browser or
permission denied error messages. Yesterday, I tried to build the RPMs
myself, but the dependencies were wrong: xmms-1.2.10 was looking for the
gtk+ package which does not exist on my Mandrake box: it is called
libgtk+1.2! I had this problem repeatedly before (with Mozilla, for
example, as well as with GNOME 2.6 which I simply cannot install). Is
there a Linux distribution that would be more easily upgradable than
Mandrake or should I investigate a solution to create RPMs with no
dependencies (e.g., a command like tar which would create the RPM for me)?
Thanks