well, I did a clean install of AOl. no dice. I am going to zap the pramm here in a moment. I very Occasionally got bounced from aol or had my MS word program crash on 512 Mb, maybe once a week or less. Now itss several times a day. Geez As far as I can tell MW Word, Now and AOL which are the three I use daily are all ok with OS9.1 I love this cube, and I don't want to think there something wrong with it. Like distemper. kub In a message dated 3/3/03 8:27:53 AM, Cube at lists.themacintoshguy.com writes: << Did you have these errors when you only had 512MB? Actually, I had goofy 'disk full' errors in many programs when I went from Mac OS 8 to 9. They were spurious, caused by some bizarre incompatibility between 8 and 9. Make sure you have versions of software which are claimed to work under Mac OS 9. >>