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Symptom: I have not personally seen it and the eval in the workaround will crash Netscape Navigator 2.00 (try setTimeout instead) but here it is anyway.
Affects: 
Workaround:
<SCRIPT>
// Fixing rounding bug in Netscape 2
function roundIt(value) {
var newFullAmount, newDecimals;
if (value<=0.99) newFullAmount = '0';
else newFullAmount = parseInt(value);
newDecimals = parseInt((value+.0008 - newFullAmount)* 100);
if (eval(newDecimals) <= 9) newDecimals='0'+newDecimals;
newString = newFullAmount + '.' + newDecimals;
return (newString);
}
</SCRIPT>