Hello, I made the mistake of closing this bug by sending a patch for gnome-pim to 61932-done, when the patch was not merged. Note that this bug renders all of gnome-pim completely useless on the PPC and ARM platforms, and the one-line patch makes it work perfectly (as far as I know).
Please refer to my post to this bug of 13 Apr 2000 16:11:53 -0000 for the one-line patch that fixes this. It would be a shame to have potato ship with this broken, when a fix has been known for six weeks, though it's really my fault for not using the BTS properly... :-( Thanks very much, -Adam P.