You don't have to patch the dotlrn sources now. In the CVS HEAD, creating all types of communities should work fine, but if it doesn't let us know!
We accidentally introduced a bug here on the 22nd, but then fixed it on the 24th. Tracy, your fix does the right thing to workaround the bug, but was only necessary while the bug (in dotlrn::get_portal_id_from_type) in was alive.
We might incorporate your fix into dotlrn when we run
though this code again since it makes type issues a bit
more explicit.
