Hi neversaint,
Looks like you've got a botched install of GD (ie the perl library). There's nothing wrong with libgd, based on the current evidence.

Somehow, version 2.35 of GD.pm is being found, but the GD.so is for version 2.32. Any idea how that might have come about ? How did you install GD-2.35 ?

If you try re-building and re-installing GD-2.35 (the perl module) that might fix the problem. Or re-building and re-installing GD-2.32 should also work - though I'm guessing you'd prefer to have 2.35.

Cheers,
Rob