On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 05:25 AM, Simon Chapman wrote: > Diagnostics report that her drive is error-free and the system is > cleanly > reinstalled. However, one other oddity may be a clue. Sometimes when > booting up, the spinning cursor displays not as the Os9 black&white > beachball but as the OsX multi-coloured pizza. How can that be? OsX was > previously installed on her PB but has been dumped. Does it leave its > cursor behind in a secret place? Are you sure you got rid of ALL X files? The only way to do that would be wipe the drive and start over. I have had many problems with client's machines that had the 10.1 on it when they only wanted 9, eventually I had to wipe the machine because those otherfiles were causing so much trouble even though they remained unused.