Eye of Gnome error after upgrading to 2.18

[Indigo 23]

After upgrading to Gnome 2.18 from 2.16 [in which I mostly used
packages from marcuscom], I receive the following error when trying to
open an image using Eye of Gnome 2.18 (eog-2.18.0.1):

Couldn't load image 'gnome-failed.jpg'.
Unable to load image-loading module:
/usr/X11R6/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so: Cannot
open "/usr/X11R6/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so"

and in the Terminal I get the following:
(eog:66783): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "murrine",

I recompiled the murrine/murrina themes after upgrading (just in
case), and I am running 6.2.

Anyone have any idea what's wrong and how it can be fixed?

Thanks.