Since my 10.3.8 OS was working at glacial speed, I took the 10.3.9 upgrade as an opportunity to do some maintenance, including a clean re-install from 10.3. Things are back to normal now. Then one has to do some reinstallation of little utilities, helpers and tweaks..... Every time I do a clean install, I forget how to make the Dock transparent. The utility Transparent Dock carries out this task. It is found at: http://www.freerangemac.com/Software/TransparentDock2.2.dmg.gz regards, Trevor