I've been able to get it working by modifying the flags in the wire protocol handling.
There is a version of MongoTalk I do use here:
http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~philippeback/HOExtras/packages/ConfigurationOfMongoTalkThis is drifting a bit from the official one and maybe I should integrate things back.
What I have in it is some extra doc comments...
I think that it is important to beef up the support for MongoTalk as we are severely lacking on that area vs other platforms.
This includes:
* support for replicasets (this is handled in client code)
* support for GridFS (nothing in MongoTalk)
GridFS shouldn't be too hard but replicatsets is another matter. I guess I'll learn a bit.
Phil