I ran the Combo update on my PPC Al-book (1.25 FW800) this morning, after repairing permissions with Cocktail. I noticed that after the update re-start, the machine shut down 2min 15 sec in to the restart, then took about 4 minutes to complete the subsequent restart. I have restarted once more, and I am back to "normal" in terms of start-up time. No problems of any kind so far. regards, Trevor