Firefox 3 problem with gconf

[crow_se]

I think that I have inadvertently done something that I should not have
Suddenly, when opening Firefox 3 I get the following :
A dialog appears stating 'An error occurred while loading or saving
configuration information for firefox-bin. Some of your configuration
settings may not work properly.'

Selecting Details on the dialog button gives :
'Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See GConf configuration system for information. (Details - 1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-stuart/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory 2: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-stuart/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd located: No such file or directory)'

This then keeps repeating.
I then get a dialog asking if I want to make Firefox my default browser. Firefox then opens and runs ok.

I have the folder /tmp/gconfd-stuart, but there is no lock folder in it.

Can anyone help ? I have googled and tried GConf configuration system
but cannot find anything applicable.
PCLinuxOS 2007
KDE
TIA

[crow_se]

Problem sorted.
I logged on using a command prompt, renamed gconf-stuart, logged off.
I then ctrl-alt-f7 to get a graphical logon, logged on as normal, fired up ff3
and it worked. No messages and no prompt to make it the default browser.