One more thing, I got into an e-mail discussion with another Inkscape user who had this same issue. He told me that though my solution works, it's not the "right" way to do it. The "right" way is a bit more involved, but addresses the issue at the application level instead of at ...

Last post, sorry for having this little conversation with myself... but I found the answer and I figured I'd post it here in case anyone else comes across this thread in their quest for the the same solution. I hate to find questions asked on forums that never got the closure they deserved. :D The a...

A little more searching around suggests this is the problem. So it seems it's not an Inkscape issue after all. Have any of the Mac users here encountered the same thing?

Today I was doing some long-overdue housekeeping and upgraded Inkscape to 0.46 (from 0.45, I believe) and OS X's X11.app to 2.3.2.1 (from 1.something, unfortunately I don't remember the exact version). I shouldn't have upgraded both at the same time, because now I can't pinpoint exactly where my tro...