I have just stepped into a rather serious problem with this version of GIMP in my Mandrake 9.2. When I try to open large files, the message appears: "Couldn't open SWAP file. Bad things will happen." and GUI gets (almost) locked. I had go to CLI, killall gimp-1.3 processes and restart X session.
Hoping to be helpful,
Wojciech Podgórni
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