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No you can still boot from CD. What you might be getting confused with is that the excellent program BootCD is not yet Panther compatible so as yet there is no mere mortal way of creating a bootable CD.

Were you actually booted (i.e. started up) from the Install CD when you ran Disk Utility? You can also try running fsck. Hold down apple-s at the startup chime and at the prompt type "fsck -yf" if you see the message "**FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED**" repeat the above step. When you get the...

The main flaw is that cp doesn't copy resource forks. I would use sudo ditto -rsrc /Users/olduser/ /Users/newuser/ the other advantage of ditto is that it automatically copies directories. EDIT: the above code should be written across a single line with a single space after ditto, -rsrc...

Is there a folder at the root level of your hard drive called System Folder? If so then you already have OS9 installed. To check for sure go to System Preferences > Classic and see if your system can find a valid OS9 system to boot from. If so click start and watch OS9 boot into classic mode...

The Mac Finder handles the forward slash fine - view the same file in the Terminal and you'll see that all the forward-slashes have become hyphens, i.e. MM/DD/YY in Finder becomes MM:DD:YY in Terminal. The OSX Finder is the opposite - it doesn't like the hyphen character and if you create a...

Windows Media Player is the correct application for opening a .wmv file. Try repairing permissions from the Disk Utility in /Applications/Utilities and repairing disk from the Disk Utility on your OSX Install CD (Installer menu > Disk Utility).

From Disk Utility Help: 1) You do not need OS9 drivers installed to startup from an OS9 CD as this is a firmware thing, not a hardware thing. 2) As long as the hard drive is formatted in HFS or HFS extended it will be recognised as a valid hard drive to install OS9 onto. OS9 drivers are...

1) Panther doesn't install OS9, it only installs OSX (unless using a restore CD). I don't have OS9 installed on my computer which means I can't use Classic. Classic IS OS9, i.e. using OS9 while booted from OSX. 2) This is the "default" method of installation. Using this method you can only...

According to Safari > Help > Installed Plug-ins I have

No, you need to boot into OS9 to upgrade the firmware for your computer. I *think* you can boot off your OS9 install CD and then upgrade the firmware from a copy on your hard drive.

If your computer has been running 10.1.5 fine for years I really doubt its a firmware issue. You could try resetting your firmware by holding down the apple-option-o-f keys at startup. You will then boot into the open firmware console. At the prompt type "reset-nvram" enter then "reset-all"...

A really good intro to using Unix for Mac OSX is at OSXFAQ. I have used the Unix tools in OSX to save me from having to re-install. You can do a lot more than you ever could from the finder.

Without knowing the steps you took to show system files its hard to help reverse the process. Did you change the configuration of /.hidden? If you were doing it from the command line this is probably the easiest way to do it. First check that you still have a .hidden file in your root...

Not true, if the OS9 drivers are not installed you will still be able to INSTALL OS9, you just won't be able to boot from it, i.e. you will only be able to use OS9 in Classic mode. For 2003 and newer computers this is no longer an option anyway, except for build to order G4's.

This only works when the operating systems are on separate disks or partitions.

This used to be an acknowledged problem by Apple which they seem to think they fixed with 10.1.2 (yes, that long ago) but I still read quite a bit about people still having the same problem. Apple's solution is to: If you are unhappy with this send feedback to Apple about this issue.

Sounds to me like you need to reformat your hard-drive. You might want to give DiskWarrior or TTP4 a chance first if you have them.

If you're using 10.3 these and lots of other handy shortcuts are now given in System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Keyboard Shortcuts

No problems here either. Have you repaired permissions since the update?

Just to clarify, my brand new iMac did the same thing. It came with 10.2.7 installed and the set-up assistant was set to upgrade to 10.3 as the very first thing - no welcome, no putting in your username, just the Panther logo and "Please insert Mac OS X Install Disk 1". I didn't actually go...