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Onyx didn't help solve the problem. But the other suggestions did work out. Thanks. It appears the permissions went kablooey after installing Office 2008. I can't prove that. But there are a lot of reports suggesting that the latest version of Office did not play nice on many Macs.

Something happened to the permissions for almost every file in my user folder: Word docs, .jpgs, .pdfs, InDesign or Photoshop files, etc. Thousands of files were affected, all at once, for no apparent reason. A Get Info on a file normally says something like this: Sharing & Permissions...

You posted this question 2.5 years ago and it doesn't look like anyone responded in the forums. Did you figure out what was wrong? I'm having exactly the same problem with my G4 only it's with Leopard. It didn't start immediately after installing Leopard but now it's a big problem. The shutdown...

Thanks for the hint. I appreciate it.

In Leopard 10.5.1, it appears that Spotlight does not find files (when searching for file names) within the user Library folder and particularly in the Preferences folder. Is this correct? Is there a way to change it?