mozilla not saving prefs..

[Mr Mike <mike@ejecta.net>]

no matter what i do, mozilla will not save my preferences.  like, default
home page, icons and buttons on the panels...  seems it worked fine till i
installed multizilla but after removing both multizilla and mozilla then
reinstalling, the problem still hangs on...  it's getting to really annoy
me and I've changed the file permissions to 777 on all dir and files in
~/.mozilla and even THAT hasn't solved it...  ANY help at all??  pls??

btw..  did NOT reinstall multizilla ....  i think that may have been what
screwed it all up in the first place..  Also tried creating another
profile but that failed too.. (suggested by a long time mozilla user)

Thanks..
mike..