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At another forum Mac users are going nuts (as so many so often do) over the idea of "trimming" the system to make window redraws, window resizing, and other functions happen faster. I understand the philosophy of trimming extensions in OS 9: fewer extensions = faster bootup and less...

Duh!!! I feel really dopey now. Apparently when I reinstalled Transparent Dock, I had checked the Single Application Mode option without realizing it or what it would do. Then after the re-reinstall, putting the transparentdock.pref back in caused the problem to return.

Thanks, davidbrit2. I deleted several preference files from my Home library. I suspect either the finder, system or launchservices (?) pref file was involved with the trouble, because I trashed those (plus some others to apps that are no longer in my "fresh" install) and the problem is now gone...

I take all that back. I decided to run Drive 10 on my newly installed system. When I tried to boot back into 10, there was no recognizable system folder on 10's partition, the only system that would show up when I held the option key down during bootup was the 9 partition. So I did an Archive...

You know, it may have been that very thing, because now the trouble is gone and the most likely thing that I can think of is, while banging away at the keyboard while reinstalling apps, the option key came unstuck. I had thought maybe there was a preference setting somewhere, or a preference...

Whenever I start an application, all the other applications hide. Whenever I switch to one of the other open apps, it unhides, but then any app that had been visible immediately hides. I have my Home on a separate partition, and just tonight reinstalled the system and then told NetInfo where...