Can't write in abiword 2.6.8

[Joseph S. Atkinson]

Koop Mast wrote:
<snip>
> I can't seem to reproduce it. What I do is open abiword and just start
> typing. Are you doing doing to cause this? I'm running 7.1-stable atm.
> 
> -Koop
> 

My currently affected machine is running 7-stable on amd64 and following 
marcuscom (so gnome 2.26). I get this:

http://wickedmachine.net/~jsa/FreeBSD/bugs/abiword.png

Text reads "This is what it's doing"

This is a report I wrote for school last week, now displayed in abiword. 
Note, this is a 5 page paper:

http://wickedmachine.net/~jsa/FreeBSD/bugs/abiword-report.png

Yes. All I have to do is open the application and start typing. I tried 
uninstalling the plugins. I blew away ~/.AbiSuite. I rebuilt the port 
and everything it depends on.

I am currently updating my i386 machine that runs 7.1 and will see if 
the problem duplicates here.