[Evolution] Newly installed 1.4.6 crashes during startup

[Piotr Romanus <promanus nortelnetworks com>]

For some reason this message did not show up in the list even though I 
sent it yesterday:

I just installed 1.4.6 using red-carpet on RH 8.0. Every time I try to 
run the new evolution, it crashes with the following output from the xterm:

(evolution:4710): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot create instance of 
abstract (non-instantiatable) type `GtkWidget'

(gnome_segv:4711): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in 
module_path: "bluecurve",

(gnome_segv:4711): Gdk-WARNING **: The X server advertises that RENDER 
support is present,
but fails to supply the necessary pixmap support.  In
other words, it is buggy.

I submitted a bug report # 56839 but I wonder is there anything I can do 
to get it to work? Is there any way to come back to the old version? 
Evolution is my primary mailer...

Any help greatly appreciated.

Piotr Romanus
jromanus earthlink net