Certainly sounds like Safari could be a potential culprit. Have you tried deleting: com.apple.Safari.plist ... from the folder: / (UserName)/Library/Preferences ? Tony On 15-Mar-06, at 8:54 PM, Tony Johansen wrote: > My cursor has frozen 3 times in 2 days. First cursor freezes in 2 > years. > Force quiting makes no difference. Can only get out of it by > shutting the > machine down via the exterior button which I know can't be good for > things. > > Seems to be no pattern as to what is on the desktop at the time > (although it > does have a lot of files stored on the desk top, but no more than > usual for > last few weeks) other than Safari being open each time (and the > last time it > was the only program open other than Finder itself. > > I ran repair permissions from DiskUtility for the OS X partition. > (although > I never know what I should do for maintenance with the OS 9 partition. > However I never go into OS 9 and only have my iTunes library stored > there. > > How do I go about trouble shooting this issue and can Safari itself > be the > cause? Can Finder develop this problem? What are the other > possibilities? > How can I go about dealing with this issue? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Tony > http://www.tonyjohansen.com > A Life Of Art > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984