Well, I continue to have the problem, but it's not just on restart. I used F12 to bring up dashboard, but to no avail again. So, I went into the prefs and reset them. Then I used F12 to bring up Dashboard, and it worked. Repeated it several times. Started a game of Scenario Poker widget. Ended up accidentally double-clicking to exit out of it, and when I hit F12 again to get me back in, nothing. My prefs are swiped! This is getting ridiculous. Any suggestions? -- David R. Boag, DDS spikedds at bellsouth.net http://www.southatlantadental.com/ On Jun 27, 2007, at 6:59 AM, Richard Stoddard wrote: > >> I opened Dashboard & Expose preferences and reset all the default >> settings to a null setting, did a restart, and found that my null >> settings were still there. They were not reset by anything that >> was active on my G5. I suggest that resetting the Dashboard & >> Expose function keys to what you want them to be will be the >> answer to your quandry. > > I had a problem with my Dashboard key, plus all of my widgets > disappeared. But once I reset them, there has been no further problem.