<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On 3 Oct, 2007, at 20:33, Eric Wood wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino">My first serious suggestion is to try with a different user account.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino">This way you can isolate whether it's a problem with user prefs or the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino">system proper. If the problem runs deeper than the user account, you</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino">might be looking at reinstallation. I can't imagine that whatever is</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Palatino" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Palatino">wrong could be very easily corrected otherwise.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>I agree with Eric on this situation. It appears that your wife dragged more than she intended to and has created a super problem. Perhaps some needed system software parts got selected during the "drag and drop". Using a different user account is an easy way to determine whether you have a "local" problem or a "total" problem.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If there is no other user account to boot into, you will probably have to do a clean install from your original disks to get back your desktop functions. Just do an "Archive and Install" option during the installation and do not allow it to import any settings from the old system. That will help avoid any corruption that may be lurking in the old System.</DIV></BODY></HTML>