At 15:26 -0400 26/4/05, John McGibney wrote: >I'd run disk utility on your drive, sounds like directory problems. I just >did a drive fix on my AlBook and all is well again. I can't say 10.3.9 was >or wasn't the cause. John - I did just that last night. Booted from my FW drive, and ran Disk Warrior 302 on all my partitions. DW found some directory problems, as it always does, but fixed them all. So far today, everything is going well, so you may be correct that all my issues were just directory related. In a certain sense, I hope so. Thanks. regards, Trevor