There seems to be a law that when you're in the middle of an important project things go wrong. I just installed the software updates for iTunes and Security. After I clicked 'restart' the grey screen with the Apple logo appeared but it won't go past that to the login window. I've rebooted with scanner, printer etc. unplugged but I can't get past the grey screen. I ran fsck -y and fsck -f commands from the Unix screen and it says the hard drive appears to be ok. I can't reboot from the Tiger discs because the cd player won't open. Can anyone help? I'm desperate; all the dealers and service people are closed for the night. I don't know if there are any issues with the Security update or not, but something happened immediately after the install. I'm running a 1 gig G4 tower with OS X 3.9 Thanks for any help. Ray