coda win98 client, kernel support faded

[Laszlo Vecsey]

I fetched the 3.2.4 win98 coda client distribution, and having uninstalled
my previous one, installed this one, and rebooted, codastart is able to
load venus but the whole kernel section (on the right) is faded out. 

Any ideas why this might be? I'm running the latest win98, with ie 5.01
and all critical windowsupdates.