Thanks, everyone for your replys. The problem turned out to be fairly well known on the Apple boards; A video card without a monitor attached. For some reason this will result in Auto Login not working. Russell On Sep 6, 2005, at 4:32 PM, Russell McGaha wrote: > Hey fellows; > Does anyone know the pref file for auto-login; after upgrading > my desktop to 10.4 followed by the combined 10.4.2 update from > Software update, I can no longer auto login with either account > selected. I've tried the stand alone combo updater over the > existing update with no success; I'll try a new account when I get > home tonight, but since I rarely us the second admin account [for > my wife when I away and she needs to use it], I don't think a new > account will solve anything. Also, after the update I can no > longer get Software update to work correctly, it says it can not > connect [I THINK it's error -1041] and asks to check the connect. > I can do other Internet related things just fine. > Anyone have any clues or experience to hand out?? > > Russell > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 >