Jim - Still working on this. Booted up from my FW drive, repaired permissions on my main drive w/ Disk Utility. But alas no joy. Same symptoms. I'll try the hardware test this weekend after I get my original install disk. I downloaded the QT reinstaller (QuickTime_6.5.2_ReInstaller_for7.0.1.dmg) but unforntunately it won't let me de-install QT on my main drive. I got a message that it is only good for deinstallig QT on the boot disk. So that appears to be a dead end too. I seem to recall the 10.3.9 update problems but I can't remember details. I'll have to spend some time at the Apple support site. Thanks for your help so far. Cheers, John On Oct 10, 2005, at 23:11, Jim McMillan wrote: > Yep, insert the software restore disks that came with your computer > and restart while holding down the c key. apple hardware test is found > here. > > before you do that, have you restarted from the panther disk and > repaired your disk permissions and disk from the DISK UTILITY (must > startup from the CD first). > > You are right, it probably has nothing to do with memory. I can't read > the reports either but I did have similar crash reports for some time > until I replaced the memory. Might be worth a shot. > > I have heard of the 10.3.9 update causing quite a few problems. > > Try to repair the disk and disk permissions first. > > Let me know how it goes > > Cheers Jim > > On 11/10/2005, at 11:39 AM, John Erdman wrote: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1494 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20051011/eacb8437/attachment-0001.bin