On Nov 2, 2005, at 11:11 AM, Richard Clark wrote: > I have no idea about these things, maybe OSX is trying to load the > fonts and they aren't there. Was my thinking as well.. I started up in safe mode per another suggestion.. one of the things safe mode does, is to delete some font cache files. I'm thinking this is what fixed the problem. Whether it did or not.. don't care at this point.. just glad it's working !!! thanks again for the suggestions. As always this mailing list is such a great source of helpful and QUICK information. Kansast