I am re-reading the archives and am up to September 1998. When I try the week view, there is no background, comic, or any graphics whatsoever. Same goes for Sept. 15. Here are examples:
Normal comic:
Buggy comic:
I get a buggy display for all week views in September 1998 and Sept. 15, 1998. I did not test past September. I do recall this happening with some other comics later on (right before the discovery of the original ROKEN picture, the previous week), and may pervade the database.
I do not know whether this is a function of my computer or of the database. I have read the archives successfully on this computer before, with Firefox (but a different version, don't know if the difference is 2 and 3 or 3.0.5 and 3.0.11.) a few years ago. I cannot replicate on another computer because I do not have access to another computer. I have replicated several times on this computer, with restarting browser and computer. If it helps, I have a Mac OS X 10.5.7 iMac July or so 2007.