I am out of town and can't test the problem until Monday. But it is hard to believe that the error is happening at time of the port install. The nedi port just copies stuff into ${prefix}. It sure sounds like a runtime error running nedi.pl. I can test it all on Monday though (and I haven't tried nedi on 10.5 yet) so drop me a line as a reminder if you don't hear from me by Monday evening. Mark