Port looks for make in /usr/bin now?

[specialham at gmail.com]

Hey guys, thanks for any help!
I'm running Leopard 10.5.2 and the latest installation of macports. I 
did a fresh install of leopard and used Migration Assistant to copy over 
my user. So besides config files in my user folder everything is 
basically like a clean install. Today I tried to update perl on my 
machine and kept getting the error that port couldn't find make (to my 
dismay). After putzing around I linked /Developer/usr/bin/gnumake to 
/usr/bin/make and BAM port got past not finding make. My question is 
what could have happened to make port look for make in my /usr/bin/ it 
was working not long ago just fine with make located in the XCode 3 
install of /Developer/usr/bin/make?
How can I go about repairing this without linking or duplicating the 
contents of /Developer/usr/bin/ to /usr/bin?
Thanks!

RC