At 14:04 -0700 9/5/07, John Baltutis wrote: ><http://www.apple.com/support/manuals/powermac/>. Software updates are >downloadable from <http://www.apple.com/downloads/>. If your machine finds itself on the internet and you make the right preference choices it will register itself with Apple. I was shocked a few weeks ago when a 5500 running OS 9.1 asked me to approve an update. I use the machine once a month or so mostly to talk to lab equipment with its serial port but it duly checked for updates and found one. -- --> From the U S of A, the only socialist country that refuses to admit it. <--