I have retrieved my system from the edge of reinstallation. scrollkeeper was generating segfault and removing it didn't help. However, old email showed that libxml could make scrollkeeper segfault. I had a repository (debian-unofficial.org) that I'm guessing had mixed testing and stable together. After removing scrollkeeper and retrieving the true libxml2/stable and many dependencies, including scrollkeeper, I was able to downgrade everything to stable, where gnome/metacity has, to my mind, much better behavior.
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