I ended up using mamp to after pulling my hair out with the entropy package, including trying what you mentioned. (I’m sure I just did something wrong, of course)

But still I’m not very excited about the entropy version anymore. Marc Liyanage does not seem to have much of a commitment to it at this point from what I’ve seen.

So, after figuring out how to get mamp to work with the commandline and switching the port over to 80 instead of 8080 and changing mamp’s doc root to match Leopard’s default (so that I can just type “localhost” as I could before) - I’ve got all the advantages of the previous setup and then some.