I don't use the kindle-lib directory in my path, I just keep it for "symbol? errors? sometimes?" I just have the lib in the path and then if it still won't load I copy the kindle lib into the lib dir. when it runs, I delete the kindle-lib dir to keep my setup tidy.
I couldn't do any of this without the wonderful instructors on here - twobob, knc1, MANY more! Pure awesomeness!
also I think your path should have been: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../lib:/lib:/usr/lib to include the system files? That messed me up for a long time!