Jane said: >Plug/Unplug/Reboot but often I trash prefs from iChat when it's not >really the app at fault but some USB issue. If trashing preferences seems to help, you may want to download and run: Preferential Treatment (free) http://homepage.mac.com/jonn8/as/ Randy B. Singer Co-Author of: The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th and 6th editions) How To Deal With Common OS X 10.3 Panther Problems http://www.macattorney.com/panther.html