fresh installation is hosed...

[aklist_bind at enigmedia.com]

Hi All: I was attempting to build a new box to run Bind on...I did the 
following:

fresh install of FreeBSD 6.2
installed openssl-0.9.8g
installed bind-9.4.1-P1 with:
    ./configure --prefix=/usr
        --sysconfdir=/etc/namedb
        --mandir=/usr/share/man
        --localstatedir=/var
        --disable-threads
        --with-openssl=/usr

...and everything was working...then I replaced named.conf with the 
named.conf from my existing server, and all hell broke loose! <g>

After much massaging of named.conf, I'm still stuck...when I try to start it 
with /usr/sbin/named (with or without switches) my error log says:

Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1 -u root -c 
/etc/namedb/
named.conf -t /var/named/
Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: could not configure root hints from 
'db.cache'
: file not found
Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: loading configuration: file not found
Nov 16 15:41:14 ns1 named[38279]: exiting (due to fatal error)

Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: starting BIND 9.4.1-P1
Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: could not configure root hints from 
'db.cache'
: file not found
Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: loading configuration: file not found
Nov 16 15:48:07 ns1 named[48697]: exiting (due to fatal error)

Given that this is a fresh install, I don't care about rolling back and 
starting over, if that's what I need to do. Or is this a simple 
pathing/permissions issue?

Any insights would be appreciated.