On May 16, 2005, at 13:17, whshaw wrote: > [...] Something bad has happened and my HD on the eMac is blocked. > When I click on the HD, I get a window from the Grammarian program > which says "Connect to the file server G3-mt as" and it asked for my > password. I can type in the password, and then the spinning ball > occurs. There is a cancel button, but clicking on that brings up the > spinning ball.[...] > Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling the OS again? Reboot and log in with startup items disabled. See <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=151952> Once up and running, go to System Preferences > Accounts > [your_account] > Startup Items, and disable whatever Grammarian installed there. <0x0192>