OK, here's a kludge, but it worked.
As you may remember, I was having the dreaded multiple-window closure
problem in Netscape, and using the latest 'clean' tarball from Netscape
to install from started it.
Since I was having fewer problems with the Mandrake 7.0 RPMs of 4.70
than with the tarball of 4.72, I removed all vestiges of the tarball
install, and reinstalled the RPMs of 4.72 that I'd downloaded a while
back. The problem, in my view, is that there are no MDK RPM files for
the 4.72 US crypto version and Fortify no longer recognizes 4.72 as an
upgradeable system.
So, after putting the international RPMs on my system, I installed the
4.72 US tarball into the default /opt/netscape path, and copied the
files over the ones in /usr/lib/netscape. I had to rename netscape to
netscape-communicator and then it was done.
Now, I have 4.72 with US crypto, and the browser hasn't closed any
extra windows yet, and I've been trying to make it. I still don't feel
like turning Java on, but at least I've got a relatively stable browser
again.
Thanks for everyone's suggestions, and hope this helps someone else who
wants everything! :-)
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