Gossip 0.10.2 won't find settings from Gossip 0.9

[Norman Silverstone]

> Today I upgraded Breezy Badger to Dapper Drake and thus Gossip 
> went from 0.9 to 0.10.2. Now Gossip won't find my saved settings 
> (account information) although they are still located in 
> ~/.gnome2/Gossip/
> 
> Why is that?

I appeared to have a similar problem which I passed to my son to solve.
After much trial and error he was able to get things working and
suggested that there had been a problem with my password entry. Not much
help I am afraid.

Norman