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Don't mess around. Back up all your critical data, save off your home folder - or wherever your Library / Preferences and Application Support folders are - and do a clean install of the system. You can really hose things badly if you keep operating your computer while it's exhibiting that kind...

Count Everest is a piece of freeware for this purpose. But a much faster program with a 30-day demo is Super Get Info by Bare Bones. VersionTracker is your friend. They have a pretty good search feature, and they list everything.

Maybe DragThing is what you need? Takes on the role of a launcher, menu bar, Dock, but much more customizable.

Wow, that's interesting. I had a similar experience with an older G4 not long ago. Wouldn't take Tiger at all, so I had to reinstall 10.3.9. I recommend you take it to an Apple Genius and see if they can fix the issue. At the very least they'll see that such odd problems do occasionally crop up...

I've heard of such problems. Before performing any upgrade, it's a good idea to run a full repair on your disks while booted from an installer CD, repair permissions afterwards, back up your home folder and your critical data, most especially ~/Library/Preferences and Application Support...

Hmm, could be a failing drive. The whole issue may have been precipitated by faulty or poorly seated RAM. I recommend you copy off your critical files using another Mac and booting in Target mode, then re-install the system. Probably be a good time to upgrade to Tiger, which in its latest...

What email client are you using? Which system version?

It's worth a try, but it sounds like your hard drive is on its way out. You may want to pull the drive and try a new one, because the more you try to use it the more data you may lose. If you have valuable data that can't be replaced, and you haven't made any recent backups, and if you can...

Write permissions are good for games that use their own folders to write data. Are these games on a separate drive or partition? Then Get Info on the partition and set "Ignore Permissions on This Volume." Are they on your startup disk? Then select the folder containing your games and Get Info...

"Practice, man, practice..."

The previous post is the best advice. Make a new account, try different browsers, etc. Also, it may not be your Mac, but your cable or DSL modem that's been hacked. Or the DNS server you connect to might be poisoned. Do all computers have the same problem at your location? I don't remember...

This has nothing specifically to do with file sharing and absolutely nothing to do with local folders. The items in "machines" are the resolvable domain names that apply to your computer (almost always assigned to 127.0.0.1). The "localhost" name is already assigned by default. I've never set...

C++ is most useful for applications that you might want to run elsewhere. It's an object-oriented language, but very very flexible. If you've never worked with classes and objects before it requires an adjustment in thinking. Since you've used REALbasic you've had a taste of...

I believe Logo is available for Mac OS X. That's fun for new programmers. AppleScript Studio applications can be fun to create. Shell scripting languages are kinda fun, but you can't make exploding flying saucers. The only reason I took up programming when I was 11 (in 1978, youch!) was so I...

Apache runs as user www in group www. If the destination directory isn't either world-writeable or writeable by user www or group www then the open will fail.

The only suggestion I can provide up-front is to run Repair Permissions in the Disk Utility application. There might be permission problems. Beyond that I'm not sure what you can do short of reinstalling the system.

Okay, I have a silly question. Are you connecting to the base station through Ethernet or are you trying to connect to it wirelessly? I believe that you have to connect by Ethernet to configure it.

iTunes has a preference setting intended to help with problematic CD importing. "Use error correction when reading audio CDs." Try enabling this option. Try playing with the Import preferences also. Make sure you have the latest version of iTunes, which is 4.2. If you continue to have problems...

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