Help me get gnomecc running!

["Wilbur M. Sims III" <trsims emailx dss state va us>]

well I upgraded to the .99.5 package today hoping that would get my
gnomecc running again.  No joy.

Gtk 1.1.13
Glib 1.1.13
gnome-libs 0.99.5
libgtop 0.99.2
libgtop-bindings 0.99.2
libxml 0.99.3
libghttp 0.99.2
libproplist 0.8.3
control-center 0.99.3.1

(gdb) run 
Starting program: /usr/local/bin/gnomecc 

GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x804cafb in compare_nodes (data1=0x80a6390, data2=0x809fd40) at tree.c:69
69              if (!strcmp (data1->type, "Directory") && 
(gdb) 

Anyone?  I mailed the maintainer, but got no reply.

TIA