I have a 17" PowerBook (1.5 GHz Power PC G4; 1 GB DDR SDRAM) running OS X 10.3.9. While I was downloading e-mail to Eudora, my RJ-11 phone jack accidently came out. Since then I have a number of applications that won't open or have the permanent, spinning beach ball. The applications include Safari (so I can't change my preference for a browser), Netscape 7.1, Camino, Disk First Aid, and Software Update. Eudora 6.2 still works fine. I have run Disk FirstAid and DiskWarrior from another partition multiple times. I had had this problem with OS X 10.3.3 as well. I just downloaded the OS X 10.3.9 about a week ago when I was at a hotel that uses Wi-Fi. (It would have taken more than 10 hours to download the upgrade on my slow dial-up internet access.) What might I try to alleviate this situation? Could this be caused by a corrupt plist? If so, which one might I try to remove. Thanks! William __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com