Ask YC: Capistrano help w/ sudo

Hello All, I'm at my wits end here... I'm using capistrano 2.1. I'm overwriting the finalize_update task in my deploy script to run sudo so that I can perform some misc linux calls. Here's a sample call:

  task :finalize_update, :except => { :no_release => true } do
    # chown the new directory to apache:apache
    run "sudo -p 'sudo password:' chown -R apache:apache #{latest_release}"
  end

I do see the 'sudo password:' prompt, however anything I type appears on the terminal and hitting enter doesn't send my password over. Prior to the sudo call, when I'm prompted for a password, I don't see my character inputs on the screen, typical of entering passwords in linux terminal,...so it appears that the sudo password prompt is broken. Is there a setting that I have not configured properly?

I've been searching google, and part of the new features for capistraion 2.1 is that it recognizes the '-p' option on sudo. As quoted:

Use sudo -p switch to set sudo password prompt to something predictable.

I don't understand this statement. What password prompt is "something predictable"?

Thanks for any help!