abiword refuses to start on 8-current (amd64) gnome-2 (the one came out last week)

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5: Wed Oct 24 18:14:31
EDT 2007     aryeh at monster:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER  amd64

gnome 2.20.1

abiword will not start from menu or command line (no error messages
given)... the "starting abiword" window appears but after it completes
no abiword window opens

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Aryeh M. Friedman
FloSoft Systems
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