PSE 9 - cannot change speed of animated GIF

I read in other discussions that there was a 'bug' on Mac version of previous releases of PSE and the the speed of the animated gif couldn't be set.
I also read that this was fixed in PSE 9, but it doesn't work for me.
What is the real status of this bug ? Could it be that 'old' files were retained when I installed PSE 9 and that they override the 'good' ones ?
(I erased all visible traces of PSE 8 from my Application support folders, prefs folders, etc.. , but didn't run the proper desinstall tool and now it dooesn't work - hangs after a while)
Thanks for help on this

It was fixed and got broken again, so it is currently broken, unfortunately. PSE 9 is pretty poor for animated gifs in many ways, including inability to see all the layers in an existing gif, so it's best just to avoid using it for this, I'm afraid.

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