Gallery Remote hangs - will not connect

Running GR 1.5 on mac os 10.4.x. It used to work fine to connect to my gallery install, but now it hangs. It never connects to the album, just states "Fetching albums from ..."

I can connect fine on the web interface, but the web interface often hangs for multiple file uploads, which is why I switched to GR.

Tried rebooting server, but no change.

Any ideas?

Thx.