Looks like maebble cannot find the config file at all. Probably something about the location of the file that isn't working, or that I have forgotten.

It should pick it up if in same directory but will first look in /home/user/.config/maebble/ so you might want to copy it there.

I get the "!! TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, bool found" error as well and am looking at it. But the connection should work anyway.

EDIT: Just noticed that you get the message that the file cannot be read. Didn't someone have a problem with unicode in a previous post?