I haven't had a chance to redo the valgrind yet, but I did track down the cause of the crash to my /etc/interfaces file. I'm attaching it (passwords X'd out).
** Attachment added: "/etc/interfaces file to trigger the crash" http://librarian.launchpad.net/6425183/interfaces.txt -- network-admin crashes on startup https://launchpad.net/bugs/76397 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs