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Now that's a kick in the toys. Have you replaced them all? I've been making myself come out in hives by trying to imagine how I can possibly remember even a small percentage of the obscure racket I had in my collection should it come to that. What my admittedly technophobe mind simply...

Again, thank you all for your suggestions. I got in last night to an empty house and all the time in the world to concentrate on this continuing problem. First off the chicken and egg scenario of needing t'internet to further investigate Date Rescue and, predictably, my BT Broadband...

HomunQlus, Your first paragraph may as well have been written in Swahili with its inpenetrable acronyms but I take it the gist is that you feel three seconds was too fast for my 20+GB iPod to be erased. That fills me with hope, thank you. It has also been suggested to me by one of the...

Sorry not to have been clearer and, once again, thank you for taking the time to help. For reasons unknown to me, installer wouldn't allow me to upgrade and kept spitting back an error message. So, instead of taking out the rubbish and walking the wife or whatever it was I was meant to be doing...

Thank you all for your kind words though suffice it to say I'm still absolutely gutted. The missus has very kindly offered me the contents of her iPod mini but, quite frankly, 330 songs by Westlife, Elton bloody John, and Blue do not in any way redress the woeful imbalance I am currently...

Hullo, Because I'm a complete idiot, last night while installing my new OSX Tiger and tiring of the error messages telling me it wasn't having any of it, I decided, in my infinite wisdom, to install the bloody thing over my previous and existing operating system (10.2.8). this in itself is not...