I am getting ready to upload the latest ncurses sent in, but I am not seeing those issues with mc and apache. None of my apps are having problems, some of them include bash, pidgin, xine-ui, zsnes, siag, joe, etc, and all depend on libncurses.so.5. Runtime seems fine here for my installation, though I have not tried to compile against the new ncurses.
Make sure you remove the old ncurses-lib, ncurses-utils, ncurses-lib-dev extensions or you will run into issues when the updated ncurses.tcz is installed.
Uploading the newly sent one now.