Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) binary dmg install trouble

[Jeff Carneal]

Hello, I've been running Gnucash under OS X 10.5 for a while, but  
recently upgraded to Snow Leopard and found my old fink version no  
longer works.  So I downloaded John Rall's Gnucash 2.2.9.2 Intel dmg  
file in an attempt to install the binary version.

After copying to Applications, running Gnucash.app, and typing a  
password so the script could do its thing, I am confronted by two  
dialogs.  The first says:

"An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information  
for Gnucash.  Some of your configuration settings may not work  
properly."

It has two buttons:  Detail and OK, neither of which are clickable (or  
at least they don't do anything).

The dialog behind it says:

"Cannot find default values  The configuration data used to specify  
default values for GnuCash cannot be found in the default system  
locations... etc".  It has 4 buttons:

Help - fails with another dialog
Quit - works, actually
Skip - caused program to crash
Setup - Brings forth a gconf box that says only "[a GnomeDruid]", from  
which I can do nothing

Here are the three relevant dialogs I've mentioned:

http://www.soldmy.net/misc/gc1.png
http://www.soldmy.net/misc/gc2.png
http://www.soldmy.net/misc/gc2.png

I feel like I've missed something simple, but I've searched the list,  
google, etc and come up with very little.  In my stumbling through the  
dark, I have also tried:

1.  installing as another user
2.  removing all ~/.* config files
3.  another 10.6 machine
4.  killall dbus-daemon

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks,

Jeff