>>I should have thought of that. It slipped my mind because I have *never* had >>to repair permissions since I got this G4 iMac with OS X. The fact that I do >>not use *any* apps that require Classic mode may have something to do with. Perhaps, but I have not used Classic or 9 on one of my machines and I have had to do it a lot.....I have also installed a lot of stuff, but I try to do a repair routine first.... There are other things that permissions don't repair, such as icons that disappear..for that kind of stuff you have to trash files the old fashioned way.