Thanks!
Actually I was thinking you were the man to ask. I'm surprised I didn't spot that solution before. I'm back on 214X right now, and not having the old problems (that I've spotted yet), but will apply that fix anyway. I'm using my old savefile from previous laptop, but intend trying a clean boot to test.
Opera 12.16 runs nicely, and Seamonkey 2.22.1 ran as well until I added the devx (pet converted to sfs).
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)