Thanks to ALL for the cool ideas. In my case, I tried it lots of the suggestions on this thread - however nothing was helping - so I was getting a bit frustrated - and I said - what the heck - and I ended up upgrading to 10.4.2 ... And in my case: "Yipee" - no more kernel panic crashes for now! So, I guess there was some kind of conflict with 10.4.1... That got resolved in 10.4.2 Thanks again for all the help - RevDave -- Thanks - RevDave CoolCat at hostalive.com [db-lists]