Ok, so I'm a complete jackass. Had a copy of pidgin installed from source (I guess from before the Ubuntu repos had the latest version?), and another copy installed from backports atop that. Finally realized something was up when I apt-get remove'd everything slightly related to pidgin and yet I could still launch the program.
So, to confirm, the fix is working in hardy-backports for amd64, and thanks for the help everybody!
Ok, so I'm a complete jackass. Had a copy of pidgin installed from source (I guess from before the Ubuntu repos had the latest version?), and another copy installed from backports atop that. Finally realized something was up when I apt-get remove'd everything slightly related to pidgin and yet I could still launch the program.
So, to confirm, the fix is working in hardy-backports for amd64, and thanks for the help everybody!