I got tired of waiting, and combined Pidgin 2.2.1 with the current version of PidginPortable to make my own PidginPortable 2.2.1. Here is a link to my blog post about it.
http://iamtheengineman.blogspot.com/2007/10/upgrading-pidginportable-to-...
Please let me know if you have any problems using it. Hopefully this will work for people until John has enough time to put together an official release.
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