Yelp won't work with Gnumeric

[Jonathan]

Computer IBM ThinkPad 600E
366 MHz PII w/ 160 MB RAM
FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p1 
yelp-2.4.2_1 
gnome2-2.4.1 
gnumeric2-1.2.4

Hello:

When I click on the Help -> Contents button in Gnumeric, Yelp starts but
will not load it's contents. Instead Yelp runs for quite a while (> 1
minute) and uses up 75 MB of swap space. I eventually have to kill it. I
can see the titles of the Gnumeric help files but they just won't open
in Yelp. This also happens with the Help->Contents for Ximian Evolution.
However Yelp works OK when run from the command line or when it is
opened as part of the help system in Epiphany or the Gnome terminal.
Has anyone else experienced these problems and if so is there a fix or
workaround?

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			Kind regards,
			Jonathan