Error including manually installed TikZ package [closed]

Question

I am trying to manually install tikz in my local texmf tree on my shell account at school.

I simply unpacked the latest build to ~/texmf/tex and ran texhash.

Now, trying to compile this simple document gives me an error:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
 TEST TEST TEST
\end{document}

And the error is:

! Missing { inserted.

                   r
l.394 \pgfutil@setuppdfresources
                                 % possibly call the above
? x

Anyone seen anything like this before?

Edit: OK, this actually compiles fine in latex, but not in pdflatex (which is preferable to me so I can include raster graphic formats).

Here is the log file from the failing pdflatex run (kind of long to post here): http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~winteren/test.log

Edit 2: Ok, still not working after removing the old pgf installation and installing the newest version from sourceforge. Looks pretty much the same, but here's the new failing log file: http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~winteren/test2.log