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> The only possible clue I have is the that netlist, for the PNP, has the 
> pins labeled with ECB instead of 123. Can that be the problem?

Welcome to the Transistor Problem :-P

Transistors come in many different pinouts, even for the same package
(EBC vs ECB vs BCE etc).  gEDA doesn't have a good way of mapping
symbolic pins to package pins, so typically one would make a modified
footprint (or modified symbol) that's specific to the exact part
you'll be using, which has the correct pin mappings.  Simply copying
an existing symbol/footprint and renaming the pins is sufficient.