Since having installed Tiger, and maybe even dating back to 10.3.9--I really forget now, my Quicksilver 2002, upgraded with Mercury Extreme 1.4 GHz card and Radeon 9000 video card, had been going whacko: bright green random character substitutions, mainly in Eudora, but then creeping into other app's, too, and finally in Tiger, freezing the machine requiring hard re-boots. My first thought was a corrupted font, so I downloaded a font manager program and chacked everything out and got rid of all questionable fonts. Then, trashed all the font cache files (great article in current MacWorld, BTW: "Take Out the Cache"). Also used Font Finagler. Then started up as root, removed the Fonts folders in /Library and /System/Library and replaced them with the Fonts folder from the install disk. Nothing worked. I even tested memory with Remember, and it was OK. But, when I logged in as another user with no startup files nor anything else pre-installed, the computer was OK (though I seem to recall having had problems in Safe Mode with my normal account). Well, taking that clue, I turned off all startup applications and haxies and other goodies, and one-by-one introduced them, and it appears that the culprit was the seemingly innocuous wClock.app, an improved menu bar clock. At first I thought that it could have been PrefsMenu because of the way that it munged the icons in Tiger. But, I just fired it up again, and it *seems* to behave OK. So, has anybody else experienced problems with wClock? Or PrefsMenu? Thanks in advance for any insights, Steve