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you'd want an older version unless you are upgrading in the near future.

read everything here: http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Speed_Up_Your_Mac notably, desktop icons are treated as windows and slow down your computer a lot (leopard maybe different?) Also, look at console to see if there's any repeating errors.

The laptop will be good as a file server, but it will be even better if you have at least 1 GB of RAM in there.

How are you getting the G3 to see the "big drives"? It's not going to be friendly with drives over 128 GB without third-party hardware/software.

apple-option-w closes all windows.

For the record, I think you can use ARD with Windows clients, but they won't support all the features (because they are running VNC). from apple:

I'm not sure how you burned this, but if you just burned a .mov file, it's not going to work.

If you have an external drive, you can use Carbon Copy Cloner or another cloning program to copy your system off, reformat the system drive, then copy it back on.

If you have a dynamic IP, you should get a new IP when you restart your modem. Otherwise, you need to talk with your ISP to get a new IP.

I recommend you archive and install, then use the combo updater: http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10411comboupdateppc.html You could try to repair permissions, repair disk, start in safe mode, etc, but an archive and install will only take ~ an hour, and there's lots of things that...

It seems to be fast on PPC as well, but this last update killed flashblock.

Microsoft. Has Apple ever bought anyone, other than NeXT? related: http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/12/07/who-should-apple-buy

Verify "Automatically retrieve song names... " is checked. This will only name cds that are in the database.

Have you seen this? http://support.microtek.com/knowledgebase_1/kbdtl.php?request=KB-00003EM&vw=0

I would try using Firefox. There's an addon that can fool sites and make them think you have IE.

If it's from a G5, it's probably just the "classic" disk, which is not a system disk. You need a generic 9.2 disk, or a 10.2, 10.3 or 10.4 disk. 10.3 or .4 would be best, OS 9 is not supported by much of anything anymore.

Try deleting the preference file for iTunes in /users/you/preferences, or rebuild your library: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93313

I have a Konica Minolta slide scanner which has worked very well. I use it with VueScan.

Are you using an Apple keyboard, and do you have an Open Firmware password?