Entity David Iverson spoke thus: > When in either of their ID's (no problem on mine, since I am the > administrator), any attempt to open a component of Office results in the > message that say's the user does not have permission to open that program. > I have looked at, reviewed, and tweaked the "Ownership & Permissions" tabs > in many ways and get the same result. What do you mean by "component"? Entourage? Have you repaired permissions lately? You still have the install disk, right? Boot from it and repair permissions in Disk Utility. Using the infobox "permissions" is notoriously unreliable. --Gnarlie