Given this Portfile (its also attached):

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# $Id: Portfile 33667 2008-02-02 20:26:04Z rhwood@macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

name transmission-x11
version 1.04
revision 0
categories net gnome x11
maintainers nomaintainer
description Lightweight BitTorrent client
long_description Transmission is a free, lightweight BitTorrent client. \
It features a simple, intuitive interface on top of an \
efficient, cross-platform back-end. Transmission is open \
source (MIT license) and runs on Mac OS X (Cocoa interface), \
Linux/NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD (GTK+ interface) and BeOS \
(native interface). \n\n\
This is the GTK+ version.
homepage http://www.transmissionbt.com/

master_sites http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/
distname transmission-${version}
checksums md5 7234c2e7c9855ea62768f89196f5913f
use_bzip2 yes

platforms darwin freebsd

depends_lib port:gettext port:gtk
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why am I getting this error:

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Getafix:transmission-x11 rhwood$ sudo port install
Password:
--->  Fetching transmission-x11
--->  Attempting to fetch transmission-1.04.tar.bz2 from http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/
--->  Verifying checksum(s) for transmission-x11
--->  Extracting transmission-x11
--->  Configuring transmission-x11
--->  Building transmission-x11 with target all
--->  Staging transmission-x11 into destroot
--->  Installing transmission-x11 1.04_0
--->  Activating transmission-x11 1.04_0
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: Image error: transmission-x11 @1.04_0 not installed as an image.
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
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macports.conf on my system has used the image install type since whenever I began using darwinports way back when.

My machine:
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Getafix:transmission-x11 rhwood$ port version
Version: 1.600
Getafix:transmission-x11 rhwood$ uname -v
Darwin Kernel Version 9.1.0: Wed Oct 31 17:48:21 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228.0.2~1/RELEASE_PPC 
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Complete -dv log output is attached.
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Randall Wood
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