John Baltutis wrote: Really? This Apple document <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106712> (which, IMHO, assumes Apple's standard setup for their machines; i.e., a single startup volume) implies that repairing permissions from the startup volume/drive/partition is the preferred method: John, Wayne apparently didn't read that KB article on May 1, when I first posted it here, or an hour-and-a-half ago, when I posted it here for the second time. It seems he has made up his mind, regardless of the facts. Brian Conner