Iceape: Cannot Initialize Security Component

["Thomas H. George" <lists@tomgeorge.info>]

This problem, "Cannot Initialize Security Component" on startiny iceape
mailnews just started occurring two days ago. Checking I found posts on
the mozillaZine Seamonkey forum, some dating back to at least May of
this year.

Needless to say I have checked out most of the suggestions - I have 27 G
free space on the hard drive, I have set the profile directory
permissions to rwxrw-rw-.  Some suggested there was a problem upgrading
from 1.1.17 to 1.1.18 seamonkey.  For Debian Squeeze the current version
of iceape is 1.1.14-1 and apt-get will not let me reinstall it.
Apt-cache search iceape finds iceape and its major components including
iceape-mailnews.  Attempting to reinstall any of these with the command
apt-get --reinstall install iceape results in the message
"Reinstallation of iceape is not possible, it cannot be downloaded"

Have others encountered this problem?  Is there a solution?

Tom