I was going to suggest a restart.... It looks like OSX may still be having troubles with the Finder keeping up with what is going on under the hood. A logout may have also done thr trick. Coj Jeff Porten <civitan at jeffporten.com> On May 3, 2005, at 11:15 PM, Jeff Porten wrote: > Erase-and-install of Tiger, minimal system mucking since. Set up > two admin accounts right off the bat. Trying to add a third > standard account today, and it's failing. > > Behavior: I add an account. On closing the entry form, the other > admin account is selected, but no new accounts appear. Home folder > is created, owner 503, group staff. No new users in NetInfo. > > Will do the restart/repair permissions dance, but I'm concerned to > see an error this early in the game. Help? Restart did the trick. Would love to know what the heck happened, though. Best, Jeff