[X Newbies] New X user can't keep preference selections

[Alex]

On Sunday, Feb 8, 2004, at 23:10 Canada/Eastern, Vincent Cayenne wrote:

> If I still had problems at that juncture, I'd consider wiping and 
> installing from scratch as a time-saving approach...

If none of Vincent's suggestions work, before doing that, I'd make sure 
it's not a battery problem. Your iMac DV was manufactured late 1999 or 
early 2000, and 4 years is about the lifetime of the kind of 3.6V 
batteries Apple used in those machines.

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