Quanta eats all memory and crashes on opening

Hi! I have SuSE 8.2 installed on two machines, a Toshiba Satellite 1135-S155 notebook and a CPUBuilders CBS112L desktop. Both have in excess of 0.5 GB RAM. Quanta seems to work fine on the Toshiba. But when I try to open it on the CPUBuilders machine it presents a window which is essentially the outer frame only and appears to be infinitely long. (I.e., it goes off the bottom of the screen. And any effort to shorten it fails.) Then after an interval it crashes completely. The system monitor shows that during this process it first eats up all RAM, then tries to eat up all swap before finally crashing. [I suspect it is being killed by some system watchdog. Good dog! ;-) ] Ideas? TIA! Mike Green