just for the record (i started the thread), i never could make the dropbox installed by the ebuild work. so i downloaded the binaries from the dropbox site and they worked fine from the cli with the dropbox.py script.
never got to know what was the problem with the dropbox installed by the ebuild. didn't care much either, i just needed to use dropbox to share some files with my colleagues. i don't think i'll use it much more now.
