I may have written in on this before but whatever I've done to fix the problem hasn't corrected it so far. Anyhow, after some secruity update that I downloaded last summer, a drop down message showed up when I choose network in the system preferences saying 'your network settings have been changed by another application.' I always have to do a force quit to exit network. On the advice of a friend I trashed some p-lists in the preferences library- to no avail. Could one of you experts go over with me how everything should read in the appropriate locations ( ie folders in which part of which library ) to correct this headache. Thanks! Frank E.