Maybe this is some insight to some of the startup crashes that occur on 
Win2K that I've seen too..

-dman84

J B wrote:

> I'm having problems running Mozilla on a Win2K box, with Roaming, or
> Synchronised, profiles. [for example, the APPDATA environment variable is a
> UNC path, and not a mapped drive.. this I cant change]
> 
> On running Mozilla [unless Netscape 4 is installed,, in which case the
> Profilewizard is executed] it crashes immediately. This is unless you
> run -profilemanger or -profilewizard and you create a profile [no default
> profile is created. am assuming this is because of the UNC path to my Win2k
> profile]. If I then create a profile it's fine. However, on subsequent
> returns Mozilla crashes on start-up. Running profilemanager again shows that
> profilemanager/mozilla can't find the previously created profile.
> 
> In order for me to run mozilla I have to run it with the -profilemanager
> switch, and make it point to a profile folder on my local machine.
> 
> The following errors come up in the JS Console Window:
> 
> Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
> 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIProperties.get]"  nsresult: "0x80004005
> (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
> chrome://communicator/content/profile/profileSelection.js :: StartUp :: line
> 51"  data: no]
> 
> Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code:
> 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIProfileInternal.defaultProfileParentDir]"
> nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)"  location: "JS frame ::
> chrome://communicator/content/profile/newProfile1_2.js ::
> chooseProfileFolder :: line 103"  data: no]
> 
> 
> Anyone have a fix for this? Or am I doomed to using IE in a corporate
> environment....
> 
> 
> 


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