Well, as it is my policy to say "Ouch" when something hurts, it is also a belief that I have that if the alarm raised was false [maybe, hopefully] then I should say that , too. So, this morning I got a letter back from Barebones Software [makers of BBEdit]. They said that their test of the 10.2.4 update did NOT adversely effect BBEdit's being accessible through "Services". So, what that means is that some other application I use is causing a conflict with something in the Updater. I'm afraid it's my Ittec menu enhancement app. I sure hope not, as Ittec is easily the most useful, unobtrusive 'enhancement'-type software I've used. But there you have it. I've heard of a couple of other problems folks are having, [which I didn't have, that being the nature of things], so, just wanted to pass this info along, in case someone was reluctant to do the update based on anything to do with my unhappy 'situation' here. as you were, ~flipper