Largely ignorant of the details of JavaScript as a language, my
guess---in case this makes sense---is a name collision. Maybe there is
an addStatement method lurking in SiteAdvisor, When enabled,
SiteAdvisor seems to apply to the page automagically. So even if you
do nothing but visit the page, SiteAdvisor does whatever it does and
adds to every hyperlink on the page a green or a red checkmark and
some flyover stuff to sooth or warn you, as the case may be. So before
PiggyBank runs, something has already been done to the page...
(Thanks a lot, McAfee.... :-)  ).

--Bob

On 10/17/07, Ryan Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Morris wrote:
> > Ah, yes, I had reinstalled all the Simile plugins to no avail. But
> > your suggestion prompted me to ask myself: what about plugin
> > conflicts? So I removed all the (fortunately few) plugins in the
> > broken system which were not in the working one. The culprit: what
> > amounts to another scraping plugin: McAfee SiteAdvisor, a program
> > which tries to detect phishing sites. Disable that and my problem goes
> > away. Re-enable it and the problem comes back.
> >
> > Should I document this on the Developer's list or will it find its way
> > there by itself from this list?
> >
> > Bob Morris
>
> Thanks for taking the time to explore the issue and come up with the
> answer - I wonder what McAfee's plugin is actually doing that could
> block other extensions from functioning properly.
>
> The developers are all on this list; I'll add it as a note to the wiki
> as well.
>
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