Personally, I'm more interested in solving this part... (The libpng bug is fixable.)
prefs: Reading /home/root/.gaim/prefs.xml
prefs: Error reading prefs: Failed to open file '/home/root/.gaim/prefs.xml': No such file or directory
accounts: Error reading accounts: Failed to open file '/home/root/.gaim/accounts.xml': No such file or directory
pounces: Error reading pounces: Failed to open file '/home/root/.gaim/pounces.xml': No such file or directory
Any time I try to use Gaim it spits out those errors, and, as they imply, doesn't save prefs, accounts or pounces (?). Some of us can't use separate clients because we use like 3 or 4 IM protocols at once...