Thanks for the link, Julio. Unfortunately, GE is still running very slowly. I deleted the libGL.so.1 that I was using, downloaded the file from your link, renamed it libGL.so.1, plopped in the GE folder. I didn't really notice any difference between the files. Both made GE run, both made GE warn that I was running in software emulation, and both made GE very very slow.

I have integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200M on AMD64, 1.8 ghz, Ubunta Dapper. I have 128 of RAM out of 500 set aside for video memory.

So sad, so sad. GE ran like a breeze before all this started.