[Evolution] Evo2.03 headaches again

[Andrew Greig <algreig bigpond net au>]

Hi all,

I apologise for the negative tone of the subject, but after so many 
years of excellent Evolution, I have had a string of difficulties with 
Evo2.  I know it is a fragile thing, but I caused this problem myself.  
I will try to be concise.

Dual boot: Mandrake 10.1 / WinXP (just to keep the employer happy)
Needed to reload WinXP, but instead of using the Install disk of 
Mandrake in a "rescue" mode I did a reinstall without selecting any 
packages, and without formatting anything.  Previously I was user 501,
now there were some programmes in my user space that were owned by 502 - 
bummer.  chown -R andrew:andrew /home/andrew/*

Went to fire up Evo and it wants to convert all of my previous data, 
then I get complaints about identical mailboxes so I chose "append" to 
be safe.  Now it wants me to setup my accounts again, but crashes 
immediately after "apply".  I get the following error message

Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that 
you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS 
locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ 
for information. (Details -  1: IOR file '/tmp/gconfd-andrew/lock/ior' 
not opened successfully, no gconfd located: Permission denied 2: IOR 
file '/tmp/gconfd-andrew/lock/ior' not opened successfully, no gconfd 
located: Permission denied)

Now I have a /usr/bin/gconfd-1 file, should I just rename this?

There is nothing in /tmp/gconfd-andrew at all

I read the document at projects/gconf/ but am none the wiser. I shut 
down the nfslockd and restarted it.

Evo 1.2.8 was as good as it gets from my memory, things were very 
straightforward, why is the current complexity desirable?

At any rate I have a lot of addresses I need to preserve and a lot of 
email.  How do I extract this from the current mess and use that data to 
populate a new, fresh install of Evo?

Thanks

Andrew Greig