aspell can't find dictionary

[Paul Dickson]

Is anyone else having problems with aspell?  I'm getting:
    Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".
when I try to run the program.

When I did an strace of it, it never referenced the directory that
aspell-en placed its files.

When I did: aspell -c foo --dict-dir=/usr/lib/aspell, I got:
    Error: /usr/lib/aspell/en_US.multi:2: The key "strip-accents" is unknown.

Is it just me?

aspell-en-0.51-12
aspell-0.60.3-2

	-Paul