Woo, so I recompiled every package in my Gentoo installation because of the new versions of imlib and expat are binary incompatible with the previous versions (hence, breaking everything) and created a bit of dependency hell (i.e. couldn't recompile many of the packages that used imlib because they depended on expat, and vice versa) so, out of sheer annoyance, I just rebuilt it all overnight.
It took about 10 hours of straight compiling (the goliaths -- like kdelibs, gcc, glibc, among others -- take a hellaciously long time to build). O.O But hey, everything works without a hitch!