[Chimpman]

Thanks Kristoffer, that did the trick. See below for more details though.

Etaoin: I read those threads and they were very helpful, but I think we are having slightly different problems. If I understand this right my ibook has a res of 800 600, and dom2 has a default res of something else (something incompatible). So when I tried to run on my ibook the sdl barfs.

I am seeing some funny things:
If I use this command line
dominions2.app/Contents/MacOS/dominions2 -w

the app starts up ok and I get the entry screen (after having already put in my key). However if I mouse over the "Create a new God" option, the "Quit" option highlights. If I mouse over "Create a new Game" then "Map Editor" highlights. It's like the x coordinates are flipped. I have to click "Quit" in order to "Create a new God"
I haven't actually gotten into the game yet, but all of the selection boxes are working like this (with the x-axis flipped in some way). This is very strange.

If anyone has seen this or has any idea of what's going on, please let me know. I can provide more information if needed.