Dave Cedrone typed this message on 3/8/04 3:47 PM: > sounds like the one in your itunes folder is coming up in your playlist, and > being played. dump it from there. woof. I found the answer to the problem. This is yet another example of OS X 10.3.2 losing preferences! What I found is that I had set iClock to chime on the hour, half hour and quarter hour with a cricket sound. Somehow the preferences were lost and the system chose to use the Dog Bark sound instead. Trying to second guess Panther is getting to be a popular recreational activity these days! jg