Sorry about the OT post -- The environment: G4 1gig tower. mac OS 10.2.4 -- we've done a totally clean install of OS 10 out of the box, and installed classic afterwards (all from the software restore CDs in the box).... -- the problem: when we try to run classic we get: resource update error An error occurred while attempting to update your system folder with Classic-specific resources. -- It sounds to me like some kind of permissions problem trying to read these "resources"...the problem is i have no idea what the "resources" are and more importantly where they are ... I've looked on support.apple and on google, but no joy as yet. Anyone have any ideas? -- Tarik Bilgin Opalblue tarik at opalblue.com