thank you for the suggestions! I finally got through this morning (after 50 minutes) to an ilife specialist at mac. The actual problem is good old engineered obsolescence. My mini DV camcorder is old news for imovie 8 which only works with the mpeg4 format. There are 2 solutions, of which I used...
Problem with imovie 08. I am importing from mini-DV (via firewire from camcorder). After a few minutes, the application quits. I have tried everything from repairing disk permissions, restarting, logging in as a different user, etc.. I called mac's support line. The operator let me know that...
This is an odd one.. I just replaced my basic Epson C84 printer with a basic C88. I have deleted all traces of the C84 and sucessfully installed the C88 and set it as the default.
The printer works beautifully for all of my "non-mac" software i.e. word, excel, photoshop....However it will NOT...