UPDATE: This bug was due to my own error, so this report is erroneous. My apologies. - John
Just a general heads up to anyone awaiting AbiWord Portable 2.6. It's currently on hold due to Bug 11501 within AbiWord itself. This bug, introduced in 2.6, makes it so that AbiWord can't use its plugins if you point it to a settings file. This means that it won't be able to import images (the BMP, JPG importer bundled with all installs of AbiWord) or uses OpenDocument files (we add the ODT plugin for AbiWord Portable) or use any of the other plugins with it. Since this would be a big step back in functionality from 2.4.6, we won't be updating to 2.6 until this bug can be addressed.