Ethereal-users: [Ethereal-users] Ethereal 0.10.8 crashes with page fault in msvcrt.dll

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From: George <gh424@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 22:09:09 -0600
Today I installed WinPcap 3.0 and Ethereal 0.10.8 under Win98SE. On trying to run Ethereal, it says "Registering Dissectors" and then produces an Illegal Operation error: 

ETHEREAL caused an invalid page fault in
module MSVCRT.DLL at 0167:7800272e.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0167 EIP=7800272e EFLGS=00010246
EBX=00000000 SS=016f ESP=016df9a4 EBP=016df9b8
ECX=00000000 DS=016f ESI=0048d4d3 FS=2c3f
EDX=7eff4148 ES=016f EDI=016dfd87 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
8b 01 ba ff fe fe 7e 03 d0 83 f0 ff 33 c2 83 c1
Stack dump:
00681140 00000000 00000000 0068d123 00000000 016df9c0
0068af89 016dfd8c 00411de5 00000000 0047ebae 0047ebb4
00406bd0 00406be9 00406c0f 00000000

This happens every time I attempt to run the program.
I see from previous posts that David (12/16) and Kenneth Heal (12/21) had the same problem with 10.8 under WinME, and Nabla (12/23) had the exact same problem I had under Win98SE.
My msvcrt.dll is version 6.00.8797.0, which is not the 8168.0 version referred to in the KB article, and which is already later than the suggested library replacement version, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to do about that.
Since David and Kenneth reported that 10.7 worked fine for them under ME, it appears there may be some general problem with 10.8 affecting the older Windows versions. Has anyone gotten 10.8 to work with 98SE? If so, what version of msvcrt.dll worked?
Should I reinstall 10.8 and select some other GTK format? Should I try 10.7? Any suggestions would be appreciated.