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After rebooting, my iBook cooked me some dinner and did my laundry - both in under 5 bounces. It was amazing. :) Jeff

Print Center continually crashes on my wife's iBook whenever it gets launched (by printing from an app or by launching it directly). I get a rainbow spinner for maybe 1-2 minutes and then Print Center just dies (no error). Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I can restore Print Center...

Dunno if this helps at all, but I had a similar issue after restoring my home directory from a CD backup made on a different machine. Unbeknownst to me, OS X uses flags in its filesystem and set the "immutable" flag on many of the files I restored from the CD. iTunes was crashing because it...

I just got my wife the PalmConnect USB kit so she could use her Palm III on her new iBook. I can get the Palm to sync just fine through the USB port in OS 9.2.1, but can't get it to work at all under OS X. I checked Palm's support site and they have a short statement there saying that, while...

Wow - never heard of chflags, and I've been using various unix flavors for 8 years or so. Thanks for the tip - that fixed the problem! Jeff

I restored a CD backup of some files from my home directory to a new machine. I had a problem with iTunes crashing after doing this, which I traced to the fact that the "iTunes Music Library" file is somehow locked. Now here's the confusing part: in Terminal, I verified that the file is...

Anybody else have this problem with an iBook 500? Mine's about 5 weeks old and groans like an old rocking chair when I open up the lid. Anybody know of a safe way to lubricate the hinge? Thanks, Jeff

Grr - I had one of the free OS X 10.1 upgrade CD's, but I let a friend borrow it for a few days and he's out of town. I had burned a backup copy of the disc, thinking I'd be able to use it to install the upgrade for myself, but alas I didn't make it a bootable CD image. My question is - is...