[Urbansory]

You really can't compare X to 9. I felt that way when i first moved to X, but once the benefits out weighed my complaints, they seemed less troublesome. X is more stable, well should be, and you can multitask more. I need to switch between apps and do all kinds of stuff, in 9, I was stuck in a app until it allowed me to move to another at times. I'm use to X now, it's not slow to me, but 9 is faster, I mean that OS is older and has been more polished over the years. X will get better and has since i first got it over a year ago. You have a new machine, there shouldn't be any speed problems that bad. I assume you are running Jaguar, anything less, yes, there will be a decline. Since you are forced to use it, you may see the benefits sooner than later.

I can change my user name and i have only one user, "ME." You must mean the short name, I see that does stay grayed out after you enter the password. I never used airport, but i send my files from here and access them on campus all the time with no problems. MacHelp doesn't take long here, it searches all my apps, then access there help files.