libnotify & notification-daemon oddness

[Jimmie James]

libnotify-0.7.3_1
notification-daemon-0.7.1
FreeBSD jimmiejaz.org 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #0: Sun Jun 26 
08:42:45 EDT 2011     jimmie at jimmiejaz.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FORTYTWO 
  i386

After following the portupgrade steps to update libnotify and libproxy 
(notification-daemon got rebuild as well), I've lost pop-up 
notifications in XFCE4. Thunderbird, transmission were rebuilt as well.

Before, thunderbird, transmission would show a box with information when 
they wanted attention, now they don't.
All I'm seeing is "libnotify-WARNING **: Failed to connect to proxy" 
when the event is supposed to happen.

The only thing I can really see is:
/usr/local/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Notifications.service 
is no longer installed.
 From the notification-daemon Makefile is it's not using GTK3.

Is anyone else seeing this, have an idea how to restore the expected 
behavior?