Dear Everyone: Ok, the deal is fixed. I went to the dealer /manuf site, and there was a special report on two images showing up on desktop for mac cube. I downloaded a new driver and installed it and everything is perfect. It doesnt explain why a perfectly fine VST drive worked for a long time and then suddenly didn't, but hey, it all works now. Gremlins again, I guess. Anyway, it was interessting because ther are different fixes for os 9 and 9.1, and 9.2 etc. Thanks again, alll you are great. kub