>Have you tried to repair permissions on your boot drive using >'/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility'? Yes...but, since then many more problems have come up...looks like I'll have to erase the drive and reinstall everything. Running Diskwarrior couldn't fix; TechTool Pro, likewise, no go...so, looks like it's back to square-one. -- -------------------------------------------- "Come to Desert Hot Springs, where the water's hot and the people are cool." "And, the water's Number One, too!" God bless, Paul E. Miller