POE::Component::Player::Mpg123 fails make test?

I confess it has been several years since I last worked with POE, so
I'm out of touch.
I'm having troubles, and I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing
wrong or it it's bitrot in the packages.
Perhaps someone here will have insight?

[Context/Versions:
Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop
Perl 5.10.0
POE-Component-Player-Mpg123-1.2
mpg123 1.7.3.
POE 1.006 (which is in the Ubuntu repos) and POE 1.286 (latest from CPAN)]

'make test' fails like this:  (note you have to provide ./test.mp3)

POE-Component-Player-Mpg123-1.2$ make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl
1..20
ok 1 - finding player
ok 2 - finding test track
ok 3 - read permissions
ok 4 - use PoCo::Player::Mpg123
ok 5 - session created
ok 6 - component instantiated
not ok 7 - play issued
#   Failed test 'play issued'
#   at test.pl line 46.
Not a HASH reference at blib/lib/POE/Component/Player/Mpg123.pm line 133.
# Looks like you planned 20 tests but ran 7.
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 7 run.
# Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 7.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255

Further investigation indicates that the arguments to the 'stdout'
callback do not appear to be what I expect, based on the documentation
for POE::Component::Child.