NVIDIA 177.80 driver breaks OpenGL

At least it breaks OpenGL for me and a bunch of other people according to a google search. The issue seems to be in the actual libGL.so library. It seems like this is a persistent issue in the 2.6.27 kernel as well, so I'm not sure why this is in Gentoo's portage. Maybe my system is just broken? If anyone reads this and has had success w/ the 177.80 driver with gtk+ working and using nvidia's opengl implementation... please let me know. For now, I'm putting this driver on the backburner.