>> >>We're talking about the PowerBook F4+F5 keys, how they used to hold >>up the system when you held them down and they sometimes would not >>have any real effect. >The delay was caused by the power management disabling sound when it >wasn't used. It then had to be re-activated before the volume could >be changed. So I guess that now the sound system is always on, and >thus using power, and thus diminishing my battery time. Arjan, I'm pretty sure that's not what was happening. The sound-spaz would happen when I had iTunes running in the office. I would hold down the F4 button to crank down the music and the volume dots on the screen would go crazy but the volume wouldn't ever change. I have noticed that there in now a noticeable delay the first time I hold down the F4 button but the volume does decrease normally once the transparent volume slider appears on the screen. Peter -- A little computer haiku: I can't remember the last time I restarted I love OS X This message sent with Eudora 6 on Mac OS X 10.2.8