GTK Mouse Pointer is a horizontal double ended arrow

[James McDonald]

OK,

So I wanted to compile the latest release of dia the drawing program 
based on gtk and I have also compile gaim and receive the same problem 
which is that hovering over any of the non input areas of the 
application ie. the action buttons the grey surrounds of the application 
cause the mouse pointer to change to a double ended horizontal arrow... 
I think it may be something to do with how I compile gtk.

Has anyone seen/heard of this before? If so can you offer pointers(npi) 
on how get my mouse pointer to be a sinlge arrow and not the 
aforementioned horizontal one.

an ascii art representation of the pointer <-->