Could very well have been didn't upgrade directly to 10.3.9 which fixes a lot of the problems with earlier versions of Panther. Also good idea to max our ram in those old iMacs which costs next to nothing. -- Taylor Barcroft http://www.blogger.com/profile/11159903 New Media Publisher, Editor, Video Journalist, Podcaster, Futurecaster Santa Cruz CA, Beach of the Silicon Valley URL http://FutureMedia.org RSS http://feeds.feedburner.com/FutureMedia iTunes http://tinyurl.com/8ql87 On Oct 27, 2005, at 8:57 AM, Michael J. Prevost wrote: > FWIW: a family member could not get Panther to run well on his > Tangerine iMac. Went back to Jaguar and is much happier. I didn't > look into the problems myself so I can't say if they were fixable > (i.e. more memory, disk maint, etc). > > Mike P. >