That did it.
Thanks so much. I had tried deleting the profile before, but I had to do it with admin privileges, so I didn't realize it hadn't worked, and I hadn't done enough customizing to notice that it didn't take.
Luckily, I had sync'ed it (since I got used to that way back in Opera 3 on 16 bit) so I'm not worried about much of anything.
Thank you for taking the time to figure this out, and for the patience to re-recommend something I thought I had done, too!
So far, so good, and now it's right where I was in the late 90s in terms of a great efficient browser feature wise, with all the better pluses of the modern technology!
Well worth the wait, too!
Great job Vivaldi team!