Recent content by itinerant

Nothing weird in the login items that I can tell, but to make sure I tried logging out and back in again with all login items disabled, and a second time with a couple scanner applications disabled. No difference. hmmm.. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

I did a search for SystemUIServer and came up with a log file that indicates the crash. Below, I've included the entry from the last time the system tried starting up systemUIServer. Although this crash log informs me there's a problem, I'm still unclear on how to fix it. Ideas welcome...

I had installed GraphicConverter (both Carbon and 9.x versions) earlier in the day, and I was busy making space for a schwack of image format conversions by deleting everything I could find that was useless or old in my Downloads folder in Home. I had accidentally deleted part of...

I've downloaded and run "Preferential Treatment". It found no problems in any of the .plist files on my system. Thanks for the idea, though.

Perhaps my dry reply re: chicken waving is too arid to come across as my response to humor... in any case, I appreciate the suggestions. I've tried the 'z' prefixing the .plist files, and the rest of the steps... but still no success.

Unfortunately, if it was as simple as merely resetting the System Preferences for individual items and having them reappear, I would not be posting this thread. For example, setting the Date & Time in System Preferences to Show the date and time on the Menu Bar by checking it off does not stick...

The menu bar icons and clock have disappeared from the top right corner of my screen. I don't have a recollection of a specific incident that may have caused this, although I had just changed the desktop background image a short while before, and had a number of strange keychain messages pop up...