Garbled input boxes in gnome apps

[Shane Shrybman <shane hse-tor-ppp25607 sympatico ca>]

Hello All,

I have finally managed to get a mostly working version of Gnome v1.0.3
installed on my x86 RH 5.2/2.2.5 box. I like Gnome a lot ! Unfortunatley
it is still mostly unuseable because all of the input text boxes in
the gnome apps have 
garbled junk in them. Such as the path names in gftp and the filemanager.
I have searched the FAQs and Archive to no avail.

System info:
gnome-network-1.0.1-1
gnome-pim-devel-1.0.3-1
gnome-audio-extra-1.0.0-4
gnome-audio-1.0.0-4
gnome-core-devel-1.0.3-12
gnome-games-devel-1.0.1-5
gnome-linuxconf-0.17-3
gnome-admin-1.0.1-1
gnome-libs-1.0.3-4
gnome-pim-1.0.3-1
gnome-users-guide-1.0.4-1
gnome-objc-1.0.1-1
gnome-utils-1.0.1-3
pygnome-1.0.0-1
gnome-core-1.0.3-12
gnome-libs-devel-1.0.3-4
gnome-games-1.0.1-5
gnome-media-1.0.1-1
gnome-objc-devel-1.0.1-1

gtk+-1.2.0-2
gtk+-devel-1.2.0-2
gtk+10-1.0.6-4

glibc-2.0.7-29
glibc-devel-2.0.7-29
glib-1.2.0-1
glib10-1.0.6-4
glib-devel-1.2.0-1

libpng-1.0.1-5
libpng-devel-1.0.1-5

Any clues would be appreciated.

TIA

Shane