On 18 Sep 2004, at 0:04, phoenix wrote: Shutdown and Restart do not work from any of the menus. Sleep /does/ work from the menu, but the keyboard shortcut (CTRL-Eject) no longer brings up a shutdown menu. The only effective way I can seem to restart this baby is by bringing up a Terminal window and using sudo for either restart or shutdown. I'm still using my SE keyboard (through iMate) with my Cube. Recently, I inserted a powered USB and immediately got similar symptoms - had to use the Power Switch on the Cube itself. Tried a couple of other (borrowed) hubs, all performed the same way. Back to a USB extension lead and hand-hot-switching! Just a thort! D.