ok.. from clean, and I mean really clean including a reboot and a clean out of all wx stuff. Since the webserver on the stable aMule isn't working for me, and I'm using the later wxWidgets, I'm going to go with Amule CVS. All manual compiled, no ebuilds or rpms used.
find / -name "*wx*" -print | more
Nothing (except the ebuild files in /usr/portage which I'm not going to use)
wget
http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wxwindows/wxGTK-2.5.2.tar.gztar xvfz wxGTK-2.5.2.tar.gz
cd wxGTK-2.5.2
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-gtk2 --with-gtk --disable-unicode
make
(as root) make install; ldconfig
tar xvfj aMule-cvs-20040930.tar.bz2
cd amule-cvs/
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-webserver --disable-gtk2 --with-gtk --disable-unicode
make
(as root) make install
(it mentioned Kademlia in the compile output !! Tasty!)
and there's a new Gentoo kernel out. So I'm installing that and rebooting. There goes my uptime (sob!)

cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot
ok rebooted, let's try it.....
(sigh) the only images that have been displayed are logo.jpg, on the login screen, and once logged in, all the images are missing except cp_download.gif. Clicking on that logs me out, never to let me log in again....