OSX 7 (Lion) messed up a lot of my $PATH variables. Digging around revealed the easiest ways to manage and maintain these paths.
http://hathology.com/2008/06/how-to-edit-your-path-environment-variables-on-mac-os-x/
http://superuser.com/questions/69130/where-does-path-get-set-in-os-x-10-6-snow-leopard