well none of those directories exist (since i wiped the drive after moz and chimera made the changes to properly store prefs). i went ahead and trashed chimera's application suport folder and downloaded the latest nightly but same problem. i did a clean install awhile ago so i know the system is fine. navigator was the first thing i downloaded after wiping the drive and reinstalling. cant get a cleaner system than that, so it is clearly a chimera issue.