Can't Display Location

[Manulite <linux interlife co zw>]

Hello.

I have just finished installing gnome 2.8.1 on my Suse 9.0 (Linux 
2.4.21-260-default #1), using garnome. I have two problems:
1.  The gnome-theme-manager crashes during startup. I managed to open it 
a couple of times, now I open it, it crashes. This however is in the 
bugzilla bug(149236), but no solution to it yet. (and possibly off-topic 
in this list)
2. This now is like a show stopper for me, I cannot launch _any_ file 
from nautilus. If i double-click any file it brings out a dialog window 
with the title "Can't Display Location" and a messege that says 
'Couldn't display "/path/to/my/file.ext". There was an error launching 
the application'. Where do you configure the file associations, or is 
there something missing in my gnome build?
Thank you in advance.

Manulite