Help! Menu & Preferences Greyed out.

[akiratea]

The story: After some time of trial and error I finally was able to compile and install Deluge in OSX 10.4.11.
But now I don’t have a clue what’s going wrong.
I launch Deluge from the X11 prompt; the main window and connection Manager come up.
From this point on, nothing works.
I cannot add torrents or change anything in the preferences.
The menus are all grayed out. (see pic)
What can I do?

[loki]

In the Connection manager, start daemon, and connect... should be all set to go.
I believe you can set it to automatically start if not already connected in the dropdown options.

[akiratea]

I when to the Connection manager, hit "start daemon"
This Happens:

[DEBUG ] 16:47:54 connectionmanager:408 on_button_startdaemon_clicked
[INFO ] 16:47:54 connectionmanager:438 Starting localhost:58846 daemon..
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deluge/ui/gtkui/connectionmanager.py", line 433, in on_button_startdaemon_clicked
self.start_localhost(port)
File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deluge/ui/gtkui/connectionmanager.py", line 443, in start_localhost
subprocess.Popen(["deluged", "-p %s" % port])
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1091, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

I hit "connect"
This happens:

[DEBUG ] 16:48:25 connectionmanager:450 on_button_connect_clicked
[WARNING ] 16:48:25 connectionmanager:473 Host does not appear to be online..
[INFO ] 16:48:25 connectionmanager:438 Starting localhost:58846 daemon..
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deluge/ui/gtkui/connectionmanager.py", line 476, in on_button_connect_clicked
self.start_localhost(port)
File "/opt/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/deluge/ui/gtkui/connectionmanager.py", line 443, in start_localhost
subprocess.Popen(["deluged", "-p %s" % port])
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 594, in __init__
errread, errwrite)
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/lib/python2.5/subprocess.py", line 1091, in _execute_child
raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

[loki]

Are you sure python is installed and/or the directory configured properly for deluge to use?
I don't know much of anything about mac, just going from the error...

[akiratea]

I thought python was install correctly.
"the directory configured properly for deluge to use?"
How is supposed to be configured?
How can I check?
A step by step would be helpful.