Safari spontaneously stopped displaying HTML

[Joseph Ayers]

Prior to this seemingly spontaneous change Safari worked famously for 
several days. It will display JPEGs  that are dragged on the dock 
icon and the bookmark pages are displayed, but when a site is 
selected from bookmarks, the progress and status bars work normally 
but no text or graphics are displayed. I've seen suggestions that 
resizing the window will overcome this, but it doesn't work for me.

  I have completely removed Safari including the application, 
Preferences plist, caches and bookmark folders and reinstalled Safari 
and rebooted, but the newly installed Safari application does not 
work either. I also Reinstalled OS X 10.2.3 but still a freshly 
installed version of Safari does not display HTML. Remarkably, it 
works just fine if I log in as ROOT. I have tried repairing 
permissions but it still doesn't work. Does anyone know of a conflict 
with something in ~/library?

Joseph Ayers, Visiting Scholar
Institute for Non-Linear Science
University of California, San Diego
Internet: lobster at neu.edu
www.neurotechnology.neu.edu
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