"GTK - WARNING ++ : XID collision, trouble ahead

[Charles Blair <c-blair@Illinois.edu>]

   I recently installed squeeze on a laptop with an ethernet
connection.  When I run iceweasel from "root terminal," it
works sometimes, and seems to refuse to connect to the outside
world other times.

   This may be connected to the message I see when I do successfully
use and exit from iceweasel:

Gdk - WARNING  ++ : XID collision, trouble ahead

   Thanks for any advice