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it's not useless, just less secure than you thought it was. Basically, it provides a way for passwords etc. to be stored so that you are the only person that can use them. If a user copies your keychain (have to be admin to do that (and likely have to be a jerk too)) then they still don't have...

Look at this Apple document regarding Archive and install: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120

there was a demo available somewhere. try downloading the demo and running it. If it runs, the full version should, unless your Doom3 media is bad...

Yes. Yes it is. Put your CD in a safe place, or better yet, set the firmware password so you cannot boot off of anything but the internal hard drive. Local access to your machine should be protected if you are concerned at all with the data stored on it. This is not specific to Macs, however...

Well, there goes that theory. :P Not enough email messages to make a difference. I'm nearing 3000 mail messages in about 20 mailboxes, with a mix of pop and imap accounts. Any mail plugins?

and perhaps a teensie over the top. ;)

Check out this thread at Apple Support > Discussions: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=684846&#684846

If you twist the plug, can you pick up NPR? :D It sounds like you may have a grounding issue. Does it happen when the adaptor is not plugged in? Does it happen only when the ethernet cable is plugged in? Try a new shielded ethernet cable. After that, what access do you have to the wiring for...

how many mail messages do you have in your mailboxes?

Are you the only user on the machine? Do you have any peer to peer software installed? Change your password to a strong password recently? Wacky and potentially unnecessary services running? (web server, databases, email databases,..) Odds are pretty good that if you're the only user account...

Those items should not pose any problems, depending on what onyx does to those files, and what you might want those files for in the future. For instance: The system log files are maintained by the unix "periodic" daily task. What specifically does Onyx do to that/those files? If Onyx was...

D'OH! You beat me too it. I prob'ly should have read all of everyones posts before posting. :P sorry.

When you download a file, that file may be compressed in the "Stuffit" format. No, I'm not insulting you, that is the name of the application that compressed the file. http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/system_disk_utilities/stuffitexpander.html It wouldn't be very effective to have you...

WOW! SPSS charges $1500.00 and they can't afford to pay someone to port their overpriced software?!!?!!?

Did the name of the application change (even slightly)? How did you set up F1 to cycle windows in all apps? You may need to retrace those steps to determine how to resolve it. Oh, and LOL! :: points at username ::

Try restarting your machine with the external drive connected. It will sometimes make the drive visible in Disk Utility. Try zapping the PRAM 3 times in succession. This can also provide positive results in some circumstances. I know you tried blah blah... but I can't tell if you tried this. :p...

SPSS is available for Mac, too. Sadly, you have to pay big dough for the 10% of SPSS that Excel won't do. Otherwise, I use OpenOffice.org on my (company owned ;) )machine. Partly because I already like running X11 apps, and partly because it's faster than the java incarnation of...

Smarty pants. ;)

There aren't too many cons if done right (the defaults for archive and install is to preserver user accounts and something else I forget right at the moment), but it is pretty straight forward. As stated by eric2006, you will have a new folder on your drive named Previous System, or...

Did it boot up? If it did boot up, then your user data should be "largely" okay. It is unlikely that it would arbitrarily delete an entire user folder if you can still boot up the OS on the drive. First things first. Does it boot up?