dunno what happened. i started ctrl+alt+del ing applications to clean up system processes. attempted to reopen k-meleon 1.6 a3z and continuing to receive this error even after reboot. k-meleon 1.5 offical loads fine.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: k-meleon.exe
Application Version: 1.6.0.0
Application Timestamp: 4b8a8f63
Fault Module Name: MSVCR80.dll
Fault Module Version: 8.0.50727.4927
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a2752ff
Exception Code: 80000001
Exception Offset: 0001500a
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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nevermind. after trying about 10 times and rebooting 2 times. it gave me the same error again. tried again and it loaded suddenly.

odd...