Trashing is the least of your worries (deleting a file owned by root is no big deal as long as you have admin privs, just use Terminal.). Why do you have 6 copies of the same panel? What actions have you performed to get there? When you say "trash", do you mean, (a) trying to remove the panel in System Preferences, or, (b) trying to trash the file /System/Library/PreferencePanes/Localization.prefPane in Finder? Thanks for the responses I have no Idea what I did to make the extra copies of the international panel besides trying to delete the file from /OSX/share/emacs/21.1/lisp/international, in Finder. This is when I get the root file warning. I don't have a emac! I'd like to get rid of (trash) the 5 copies and leave one on the system preference panel. One is in the "personal row" of the panel and 5 are in the "other" row. OS9 was sooo much easier! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 920 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20050609/8a8fb985/attachment.bin