evince unable to open pdf

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

Hello,

I've recently reinstalled box running Etch amd64.  However, evince no
longer works.  It is my only gnome app; I don't usually have luck with
gnome but need it for this one application.  When I ssh into the box
from a P-II with 64 MB ram, Kpdf keeps its image rendering in the
xserver which over-taxes the P-II whereas Evince keeps its memory to
itself, on the amd64.

Evince itself opens OK, but when I open the file dialog with its default
filter of "All Documents", it doesn't see any.  If I remove the filter
to "All Files", it sees the pdfs but when I select one to open, it pops
up an error:

Unable to open document
Unhandled MIME type 'application/octet-stream'

When I click on help, it opens the help browser (I have yelp installed),
but instead of getting help, it in turn opens gvim with the XML source:
	/usr/share/gnome/help/evince/C


I'm assuming that this is the same problem: the help browser doesn't
know how to handle its own XML help files so opens gvim.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Doug.