OK let's take it one by one:
* In envinronment vars you only need QTDIR and PATH (that is if the Qt installation hasn't arready set them up for you, which is generally the case).
* In the global variables editor you don't really need to set the INCLUDE and LIB variables for either wx or cb global variables
* You don't need to add anything in the global compiler settings
* You don't need the WX and CB Custom variables in compiler's global settings.
* Inside the zip file you mention there is a directory named qtworkbench and under that you can find the two directories you mention. So under the contrib plugins directory you should have the qtworkbench folder.
* Do you *actually* have the latest codeblocks sources? That means have you made an
svn checkout from the project's repository at Berlios?
Note: I just downloaded the zip file, extracted it, updated to the latest c::b revision and built it without any problems.