Any PC wizards out there? netscape probs

[KiltedBanshees93GT]

Can anyone tell me what the hecks going on here? We generally use netscape for surfing and within the last 12 hours something has gone horribly wrong, please read on and help if you can!! ops: :twisted:
Right now, we have lost all of our favorites (due to g/f reinstalling netscape maybe?) but that is not the real problem is that when the browser is opened it gives an error message: "An error occured reading the startup config file; pers.js, syntax error illegal character. Followed by a string of characters.

Any ideas? I cant find the pers.js file, I checked all the javascript files in netscape,and did a general search on c:. nothing there, tried clearing them anyway, the program wouldnt load at all.
If you continue after the error message, netscape loads, and tries taking you to the registration, which we have already done. You can cancel the registration, and load the browser, but all the favs are gone, and it wont remember any of the settings (i.e. changing the homepage, it loads the default at next loading. )

BTW, we also tried downloading Mozilla, and got the same problem, if it helps.

Any ideas? please help!

Thanks, J

p.s. Any hope of finding the favorites?