Balsa threading problem

[orangevixen wolfsinger com]

When I select a message to view, Balsa locks up in what appears to be a 
thread. I ran balsa in gdb and got the following trace:


#0  0x401a6ab4 in __libc_read ()
#1  0x40224d1c in __DTOR_END__ ()
#2  0x40c2c6d1 in gconf_activate_server ()
#3  0x40c2ca22 in gconf_activate_server ()
#4  0x40c2c238 in gconf_activate_server ()
#5  0x40c2c197 in gconf_activate_server ()
#6  0x40c2c04e in gconf_activate_server ()
#7  0x40c338d1 in gconf_engine_key_is_writable ()
#8  0x40c33971 in gconf_engine_key_is_writable ()
#9  0x40c32050 in gconf_key_check ()
#10 0x40c322bc in gconf_engine_get_default ()
#11 0x40b8f8f8 in gnome_vfs_mime_application_new_from_id ()
#12 0x40b8e32d in gnome_vfs_mime_get_default_component ()
#13 0x40b8e430 in gnome_vfs_mime_get_short_list_applications ()
#14 0x8071531 in part_create_menu (info=0x81c0578) at balsa-message.c:2266
#15 0x80712a9 in display_part (bm=0x8187860, body=0x81b85a0)
    at balsa-message.c:2156
#16 0x8071377 in display_content (bm=0x8187860) at balsa-message.c:2182
#17 0x806e6f0 in balsa_message_set (bm=0x8187860, message=0x81ace60)
    at balsa-message.c:512
#18 0x806a3eb in idle_handler_cb (widget=0x81a44b8) at balsa-index.c:1990
#19 0x40e37858 in g_timeout_add ()
#20 0x40e36905 in g_get_current_time ()
#21 0x40e36ec1 in g_get_current_time ()
#22 0x40e37039 in g_main_run ()
#23 0x40d61fba in gtk_main ()
#24 0x808260a in main (argc=1, argv=0xbffffaf4) at main.c:430
#25 0x401189cb in __libc_start_main (main=0x8082314 <main>, argc=1,     
argv=0xbffffaf4, init=0x805f23c <_init>, fini=0x80d278c <_fini>,     
rtld_fini=0x4000aea0 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffaec)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:92

I am using Balsa 1.4.1 because I do not have GNOME 2. Is there a way to 
fix this (other than to disable threads)?

--Tara