> I have a ghostly "vibrating arrow" come up, then fade away when I > press the F-12 key to open the CD slide. That's the only one I've > noticed on my 14.1" 1Book 900; there may be others. No sound with it, > however. That means your iBook is haunted. Seriously, though, F12 is the key under OS X that opens the CD tray; what you're seeing an indicator that the key was pressed. It's similar to the icons that come up when you adjust the brightness or volume controls. BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net