MacOS 10.3.9 I flipped on the machine and noticed several menu bar icons are missing. Notably, the clock. I checked the System Preferences and the check box was unchecked. Hmm! I checked it, closed the window, reopened it and the check box remained unchecked! Any ideas as to what might be behind this unexpected new behavior? BTW, I did add an account for myself on an MacOS X server, and set my desktop to mount a volume there at startup. Perhaps this has something to do with the new behavior? Mark Phillips