Ok, well while I had to do some good ol fashioned finger work, I finally have mangler using ALSA instead of OSS. I had to download the open source from the mangler website instead of off synaptic, manually install it with the configure, make and make install commands, as well as get certain libraries off synaptic as needed, as well as getting the ALSA developer library.
For anyone in future reference who has had or is having issues with mangler, once you have all the libraries needed, including the ALSA delevoper library, start the install with ./configure --with-alsa, then make and (after running as root) make install as normal.
