Hi, Sorry. i wasn't aware that the webmailer (that i use very rarely) uses html as default.

here again in plain text:

I hope someone can help me.

I have a problem with my inkscapes (i had 0.48.2... and upgraded to 0.48.4.r9939 without success, OS: german WinXP 32bit) unit selection boxes. Especially the ones in the document property dialog (but also in some other dialogs). the "default unit" and "unit" drop down lists are empty. they are very small and the drop down button is inactive (grey). So i cannot change the units. I allready tried removing preference file to reset to defaults. i changed the language from german to english. but the problem does not disapears. The only boxes that i could found that seems to work is the one in the toolbar if an object was selected and the one in the stroke style dialog.

document propertys/page, document propertys/grids, transform, inkscape preferences/grid, inkscape preferences/Interface are not working.

Any hints? regards René