Google earth segfaults on 64 bit fc10

[Wendell Nichols]

I run 64 bit fedora core 10 and the proprietary Nvidia drivers 
(NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.22-pkg2.run).  Google earth worked when the 
machine was running 32 bit but segfaults now that I reinstalled as a 64 
bit os.  Its a Thinkpad T61p.
It segfaults shortly after loading /usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1 so I 
suspect its failing in this Nvidia lib. 
Any suggestions?
wcn