5.18.1-MacOS for mac tiger, 10.4.11



I didn't compile this wxMaxima.app myself, but I believe it's OK. So  
perhaps there really is a problem specific to your machine...

In your place I would delete the wxMaxima preferences located in
~/Library/Preferences
(~ stands for your home directory)
and try to launch it again.
If wxMaxima still looks in /usr/local/bin, then perhaps a dirty  
solution is to make a copy of wxMaxima.app there so it will find the  
files.
Again, I don't know exactly what is the problem.. I'm guessing here.

Report if there is any progress..

Regards,
Ziga