To empty the trash that refuses to delete you could boot from your install disk and delete it from there. As for the major reinstall and subsequent problems - check your RAM. Errors in the RAM take some time to accumulate to cause real file errors that you notice and OSX is very touchy about its RAM. TechTools will check RAM and so can your Apple Hardware Disk. jj On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 08:09 AM, Power Macintosh G4 List wrote: > I recently had to reinstall the OS, due to a major crash, so some or > all of these problems might be related to this...