o.k. i guess what i am saying is that i can boot it into 9. then go to prefs, startup disk... then i see the 9.1 on my firefly hard drive. and then the internal drive (x and 9.1(?) are available) i thought it was supposed to be 9.2... anyway i select the x build and click restart... the gray x apple comes on and the dots go round and round, then blue screen, then the boot screen showing that it is loading some stuff (it is not taking as long as it should during this stage)... then to the blue screen of death (no more flashing of the desktop picture). i guess os 9 mac first aid can't repair permissions if i boot of the firefly and try fixing the internal x build? thanks.