:) - Which is the second (and current) method of implementation troubleshooting - "I then downloaded the libraries directly and installed them, the module still cannot find the library." The only difference between the two is where the libraries deploy to. The AIX toolset puts them in /usr/lib, whereas the standalone install drops them in /usr/local/lib - but I digress.

So to level set, I have installed the libraries straight from the gnome site, and those are the libraries that I am currently using