[ic] Category select box not working in 4.6.5

[Chris Rapier]

> I looked at this problem briefly, but I don't have access to the machine the
> demos run on, and when I installed a copy of 4.6.5 locally, it didn't
> exhibit those symptoms.  If you don't have any categories you should still
> see the combo box with 'no current value' as the only option on the popup.

Sigh. Maybe its a freebsdism but I doubt that the demo is running on
freebsd. I am going to uninstall and reinstall and see if that helps any
(which is horribly microsoftian but if it works...). 

However, I will note that categories do exist in the products.txt
database. The actual error reported in the error log is (he says as he
goes to tail -f the error log only to discover that all of the sudden it
is working...)

All I would like to say at this point is WTF?