The bug you describe is a problem of the cvs snapshot you have tried. It should be fixed before the next official release.
Personally I was a big fan of Ibrowse for many years. While Aweb always did some things better than V and IBrowse in general Ibrowse and Voyager were two years ago in many ways better than Aweb.
But for V and ibrowse came no new releases during the last years - in this time the Aweb crew has added many features and fixed many bugs. Aweb has noticeable improved during the last year.
I think the next Aweb release will in many ways a noticeable improvement.
