Hi Skip:
Kudos to you for coming up with a fix. Just a note on LD_LIBRARY_PATH. You might be interested to read David Barr’s Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad article.
To rather brutally summarize that article: LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not bad in and of itself, but “export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=something” in .bashrc is probably not what you want to be doing.
The author of that article recommends using a wrapper for situations like this. The wrapper would look something like this:
#!/bin/bash
( LD_LIBRARY_PATH="something" ; /path/to/binary)