On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 09:05 AM, Charles Pearce wrote: > Bottom line: see if the user is trying to get away with a cheap DVD-R > before the poor machine gets blamed. Apple is cutting costs on the bottom line models. One wouldn't expect the drives in the el cheapos to work as well or as long as the drives in the top of the line models. --- Systems installed on My PowerBook G4: Mac OS 9 Mac OS X Unix Using Virtual PC: Windows XP Pro -Windows XP Home -Windows ME -Windows 2000 -Windows 98 Nexium JackRodgers at earthlink.net http://www.JackRodgers.com http://www.LobateLacScale.com