I just bought a Dell Inspiron 1000 "Enhanced Performance" laptop. I have never had a laptop before or used Windows XP.

 I have always preferred Netscape over IE. I downloaded and installed Netscape 7.2 on my laptop. At first the only problem was that Netscape wouldn't save my preferences. I would set up Netscape the way I wanted it and the next time I went in my settings were not saved. I went into the folder C:\Documents and Settings \ user_name \ Application \ Data \ Mozilla \ Profiles \ profilename \ and found the name.slt folder where all the user settings are saved. I made sure that none of the files or the folder were set as read only. I also checked the file prefs.js to make sure that Netscape is my default browser. Now not only am I still not only able to save my user sittings but each time I use Netscape I find that I have a prefs-1.js, prefs-2.js and so on. What's going on here? Is there some other software that is preinstalled from Dell that would conflict with Netscape? When my laptop shipped it came with McAfee. I uninstalled this and installed Norton System Works 2005. But I was having the problem with before I uninstalled McAfee and after I installed Norton System Works 2005. I think the settings in Netscape are being changed when I boot up the laptop and not when I exit Netscape. Has anyone else had a problem with Netscape?

 I have an older desktop that I built myself. It has Windows 98 and Netscape 7.1 and have never had any problems with it at all.

thanks all, Blair