You can do bandwidth throttling using the dummynet feature of the firewall (instructions at Mac OS X Hints and AFP548, but since these are just tied to TCP port numbers, they can't distinguish between different virtual hosts, client connections, etc.
You're probably better off fixing the architecture mismatch. Run file /usr/libexec/apache2/mod_bw.so
to see what architecture(s) the module was built for, and file /usr/sbin/httpd
to see what httpd is built for (under 10.6, it should be X86_64, i386, and ppc). To control what architecture(s) the module is built for, I think you can just add -arch flags to be passed to the compiler and linker, e.g.
apxs -Wc,"-arch x86_64" -Wc,"-arch i386" -Wc,"-arch ppc" -Wl,"-arch x86_64" -Wl,"-arch i386" -Wl,"-arch ppc" ...
It's probably best to match the architectures httpd is compiled for, but only really necessary to include whatever mode it's actually running in; to find this out, you can view it in Activity Monitor.