[LAU] SND problems on Ubuntu 9.04

Using SND 7.18 from the Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) repo and trying to save the prefs in SND with no luck would like to know how to fix and/or what I'm doing wrong...? thanks in advance! here is the conf info for SND snd --help Snd is a sound editor; see http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/. This is Snd version 7.18 of 17-Jan-06: Xen: 1.40, Guile: 1.6.8 jack Sndlib 19.16 (21-Nov-05, float samples) CLM 3.20 (20-Dec-05) GSL 1.10 fftw-3.1.2-sse2 Gtk+ 2.12.3, Glib 2.14.4, Pango 1.19.1, Atk 1.20.0, Cairo 1.4.10 OpenGL 2.0 Mesa 7.4 (snd gl module: 11-Jul-05), gtkglext 1.2.0 LADSPA 1.1, Jack: 0.103.0 with large file support with gettext: en_US.UTF-8 Compiled Dec 19 2007 17:06:20 C: 4.2.3 20071210 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.2.2-4ubuntu2) Libc: 2.9.stable host: i486-pc-linux-gnu configured via: /build/buildd/snd-7.18/build-tree/snd-7/configure --build=i486-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/snd --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --srcdir=. --with-ladspa --with-gtk --with-guile --with-gl --enable-debug --enable-alsa --with-jack