re: Wayne's suggestion... I've found it beneficial to repair priviledges each time I've upgraded the OS... Jay Snoke > Try booting from the install CD and running repair privs and repair disk. > > > > Ever since I've installed OS 10.2.5 on my Digital iMac, 800 Mghz, G4, I > > have had nothing but crashes on anything Classic I run. I can open > > Clarisworks and work on a file, but when I close that file and try to > > open another file later, it usually crashes and won't restart. The > > Clarisworks title page coems on when I try to restart it and it goes > > throught the first stages of starting then simply disappears. I have > > to restart Classic each time in order to restart Clarisworks. My > > Gradebook Pro program is similar. I truly wish I hadn't upgraded to > > 10.2.5. I never had these problems in 10.2.4. > > Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening and what I can > > do about it? > > > > Thanks > > > > Jerry >