Mozilla/Mouse help needed MDK 9.1

[Chris]

hey all - loaded up a mandy 9.1 recently.  Using Mozilla (the one that 
comes with it - 1.3.something).  A few days ago I started having a 
problem with the browser portion (email still works fine).  WHen I 
launch the browser, the mouse goes to "very slow", and the browser is 
all but dead.  I can sometimes use the pull-down URL history and go to 
one sight, but if I click in the URL window (like to type in a URL) 
that's all she wrote.  Not finding any errors anywhere, but the only 
solution is a killall (or xkill).  Even clicking on the widget to close 
the window does nothing....

Opera seems to work fine, but Konqueror and Galeon exhibit a similar 
problem as Mozilla.  Any ideas?

Thanks -
Chris.