::> I haven't pinned down the /precise/ trigger for this problem yet, but so 

::> it's looking like either Netscape/2 or MR/2 is the instigator.
::> After exiting from one or the other (or perhaps both--this is when it 
app
::> last), the next window I open on the desktop has some peculiar 
roperties.
::>     1. The window simply can't be closed. Alt-F4, close buttons, close
::>        via window list, etc. have no effect.
::>     2. The button at the left end of the title bar gets mangled, 
ometimes
::>        disappearing completely.
That happened to me once, when I installed the OS/2 Java Compiler and ran a 
couple of the applets in Netscape/2. When I tried to exit, it and all 
windows after it, went screwy as you described. I don't use MR/2, so it had 
to 
be Netscape that is the culprit...
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