> Someone mentioned Filevalult - another Panther feature that I'm not > familiar with. <http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/filevault/> It's a security feature that encrypts your Home Directory on the fly; it's been the source of a number of problems reported with 10.3, and probably best left alone while problems are sorted out (unless you make regular back-ups while the files are not encrypted). I try to avoid putting too much stock in User reports, but there do seem to be some substantial issues with FileVault, and too much risk of data loss. BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net