Geolocation broken on Safari 5 / Windows

Note: this is specifically about Safari 5 on *Windows*. To reproduce:
1. Open Safari 5 on Windows (XP or 7)
2. Go to this URL: http://benwerd.com/lab/geo.php
3. Click "Allow" to share your current location
4. Wait for geolocation info that never appears
There is a separate thread about difficulties enabling geolocation on Safari 5 / Mac. As described in that thread, that problem can usually be fixed through a combination of turning on Wifi, toggling a preference unde System Preferences / Security, and relaunching Safari:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2467998?start=0&tstart=0
Those instructions, however, do not fix the issue of enabling geolocation on Safari 5 / Windows. There is no similar operating system preference that can be toggled on Windows, and Safari 5 / Windows doesn't expose any such preference. Is there some secret Windows registry setting to enable it?

HI,
Hopefully someone will have a solution to your problem, but if not, you can revert to a previous version of Safari, instructions here.
http://appletoolbox.com/2010/06/downgrade-from-safari-5-0-to-safari-4-0-5/
Carolyn

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