Gmail & Safari 4.0.3

Is anyone else having problems with Gmail with Safair 4.0.3? Actually the same thing if I use Opera, Camino or Firefox. Has one of the Tiger updates blocked something?
For the past few weeks there are certain items within Gmail that no longer work. For one I'm no longer able to use 'labels' to attach to e-mails so that I archive.

Joe,
Thanks for the reply. My trouble is that it doesn't make a difference whether I use Safari, Camino, Opera or FireFox. That "labels" segment will not work in Gmail. It was only after digging around in one of the Google help areas that I located a comment by Google that they indeed know of the problem and were working on it. There was also a button to send in an error report for that issue.
I just don't see why Google hasn't fixed the problem.
Mike

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1. Password is save only for one of my yahoo mail accounts. When I login in with my other yahoo account, I get no prompt to save the password, and form fill doesn't work when I try to log in a second time with my other Yahoo mail account.
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