But I just can't get the bloody thing to install. I was running the early version before without a problem, but 1.0 fails to do anything. I can extract the files, run the install, but when I click the next button after the proxy section the window closes. I did run it once and got that pango error....but that was only when I ran the installer-bin file instead...which I know now is wrong. So, any ideas?

Download the xft-gtk2 tarball, uncompress it in your home folder and then run the firefox script in the firefox folder.

I got this when I extracted it with file roller:

mv: will not overwrite just-created `/home/chris/Documents/apps/firefox_install_files/overlays.rdf' with `/tmp/file-roller.2229.0/firefox/chrome/overlayinfo/communicator/content/overlays.rdf'
mv: will not overwrite just-created `/home/chris/Documents/apps/firefox_install_files/overlays.rdf' with `/tmp/file-roller.2229.0/firefox/chrome/overlayinfo/navigator/content/overlays.rdf'
mv: will not overwrite just-created `/home/chris/Documents/apps/firefox_install_files/overlays.rdf' with `/tmp/file-roller.2229.0/firefox/chrome/overlayinfo/messenger/content/overlays.rdf'
mv: will not overwrite just-created `/home/chris/Documents/apps/firefox_install_files/overlays.rdf' with `/tmp/file-roller.2229.0/firefox/chrome/overlayinfo/inspector/content/overlays.rdf'
mv: will not overwrite just-created `/home/chris/Documents/apps/firefox_install_files/Extensions.rdf' with `/tmp/file-roller.2229.0/firefox/extensions/Extensions.rdf'
mv: will not overwrite just-created `/home/chris/Documents/apps/firefox_install_files/install.rdf' with `/tmp/file-roller.2229.0/firefox/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}/install.rdf'

Well if file-roller isn't working try using a command in a shell

tar xzf firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

It's working now, thanks.