[ericmurphy]

I agree that this problem is not specific to Carbon (although the use of Carbon APIs or development environments might make it harder to write well-behaved apps). I believe it's simply not writing the applications correctly. I have the feeling it's due to a hasty port of Classic Applications.

There are all kinds of files in both Quicken and Bryce that need to be written to. Obviously, if you're not an administrator (and I'm not, for security reasons), you're not going to be able to write to them in the /Applications directory, unless you fiddle with permissions in that directory, which I'm not willing to do. It's always made perfect sense that normal users can't write to the /Applications directory, and I want to keep it that way.

So I guess I'll have to wait until hell freezes over, or until Corel and/or Intuit fix things, whichever comes first (my bets are on hell). Actually, I don't really mind running Quicken out of my home directory, but it's definitely pretty stupid to have to run Bryce from there as well.