On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 09:39 PM, Tracker at aol.com wrote: > I would ask if it has been recommended that you perform a "Clean > install" of > the OS? It appears to me that you have a corrupted system and need to > clean > out all the corruption before you can continue in any manner. At the moment, they seem to think Disk Warrior could handle it just fine, IF I can get a working disk image and add DW to it on a startup CD... I could then be more sure to have all my backups rather than the most important only, which is what I have now... Thanks, and I will dEFINITELY to do as you suggest in the near future...but first I have to solve this specific problem... Thanks for taking the time---I really appreciate it. Paula