Chris B wrote:
> Ah! On a positive note, Netscape seems to give good error messages. On a 
> less positive note this seems to be a bug in NS7.
> 
> The Javascript line it's complaining about (984) inserts a new row into 
> the table that contains the list of files. This line does indeed use a 
> negative index (-1) which should insert the new row at the end of the 
> table. Unfortunately, on Googling this issue, I see that Netscape 7 had 
> a bug dating back to 2002 and didn't handle this as it should do to be 
> compliant with the DOM standards. Netscape apparently agreed to fix 
> this, and if they did so then subsequent versions of Netscape shouldn't 
> suffer from this problem.
> 
> I see that Netscape got up to Version 9 before AOL pulled the plug.  You 
> can download a newer version from http://browser.netscape.com/releases 
> if you want to try that. Otherwise I can confirm that neither IE 7 nor 
> Firefox 2 suffer from this bug.
> 
> Not an ideal answer I know, but the only work-around I spotted so far 
> would mean making quite significant changes to that section of code 
> (which took quite some time to get working in the first place).
> 
> Regards,
> Chris B.

Thanks for all your help!
I had Netscape version 9 before my melt down. Lost it. I guess it's time 
I reloaded it.
Thanks again!

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