Problems with Smartftp Win 98 SE task bar

I recently downloaded the newest beta version of Smartftp 974.9 and for some reason after I open up and smartftp and the close it I get weird stuff happening with my task bar. I close smartftp and than the boxes on the taskbar are blank or look weird, and the time appears in bold characters and this only happens when I open and close smartftp. I have win 98 se and here is the system info.

+- System -----------------------------

Microsoft Windows 98 SE

Total Memory : 392312 KB
Free Memory : 728 KB

+- SmartFTP ---------------------------

Version : 1.0.974.9
Time Stamp : 2003-03-04 04:23:55

+- Application DLL --------------------

Controls.dll : 1.6.974.9
FTPAPI.dll : 2.0.974.9
Language.dll : 1.0.974.9
ResEng.dll : 1.3.974.9

+- System DLL -------------------------

unicows.dll : 1.0.3703.0
shell32.dll : 4.72.3812.600
shlwapi.dll : 6.00.2800.1106
comctl32.dll : 5.81
riched20.dll : 5.30.23.1200
schannel.dll : 5.00.1878.13

+- Internet Explorer ------------------

Version : 6.0.2800.1106

+- Winsock ----------------------------

Winsock : 2.2

Try updating to the last development build 974.39

https://www.smartftp.com/Products/SmartFTP/SFTPDev.exe