I'm having a terrible time

[JOHN FABIANI]

Hi,
I'm having a terrible time getting the program to run correctly. I'm
using SuSE 8.2 on dual AMD 1700 system. When I run the program it opens
and many screens appear to work.  However, when I attempt to open the
script editor I only get a flash.  I can see that a window gets opened
but it closes immediately.  Also I have to open the inspector window
before I attempt to do anything else or it does the flash routine too. 
At first I thought this had to do with the SMP kernal but the program
acts the same way on a single CPU system (also running SuSE 8.2).  Both
systems are using 2.4.20.  Does anyone know what may be the cause of the
trouble.  The system looks promising and I don't really want to give
up.  If it's not going to work at this time please just let me know.  

TIA
John