Yes, it's a curses error, most likely being caused by the terminal window being too small to draw the summary box at the top.
You're right, I increase terminal window size and now it work.
Depending on the length of your pool names the current version will need around 120 chars of width, the older one in the git repository maybe a bit less.
What is a current version? This?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23683845/pyfpgaminer-0.0.1.zip