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That is exactly it. Disk Warrior will do a lot of things that Disk Utility will not. It is almost always worth a try when dealing with Mac hardware issues.

Wow that is very odd. Never heard of that before, are there any other accounts to use? I would see if you can access prefs from another account. Have you tried to repair the disk using Disk Utility from the install DVD?

There is no logical reason for permissions to get corrupted unless the system is unstable. I had more than one Linux boxes and more than one Mac and the only time things ever got corrupted was from a power outage or a badly made kernel extension that forces a reboot. You quote Apple talking...

You know given that Mac OSX uses a *nix kernel I don't think one should have to do those steps on a regular basis. This isn't Windows.

Sounds like you need to force it to dismount from the command line.

No, I agree. I would copy the data folders first for Music, Documents, etc... There is a setting somewhere that is screwing you up. The above instructions for what folders to use should work but you may want to see if you can have Mail itself do the export. Failing that copying the entire...

Sounds like you may have nukes your boot sector, normally I would suggest that you try Disk Utility from the DVD but you already have, I would thus go for bigger guns and spring for a copy of Disk Warrior, saved my butt mire than once. Even if it doesn't work now it is good to have in your toolkit.

You could also make her old account have administrator rights and see if the software will install on it then. Other than that you can use the Terminal to actually clone her entire user profile into the new account.

It could be a permissions problem. Try going into the properties of the Users folder on the external disk and in the Get Info screen set it's permissions so that everyone can read it and make sure it applies it to sub folders.

Did you do a speed test and compare, if so what were the results?

You don't even really need Windows server any windows box with files shared on the network should do the trick. Should be able to set a folder as shared and then proceed to access them from any computer on the network.

I don't see any reason for 9 partitions. One should be just fine. And yes, there is a way to tell Disk Utility to unmount the disk, should be in the right clicking context menu or in one of the menus in the menu bar. I don't have my Mac in front of me right now so I can't check.

You should do a speed test on each while nothing else is running... http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Compare the results, not only computer to computer but with how much bandwidth you actually have. Is the macbook directly connected or is it connected via wifi?

What exactly are you wanting to do with the server?

Alright, this problem sounds familiar but I can't remember exactly how I solved it. There must be some difference between the one Mac and the others. What OS version is each mac running? Have you done any playing with any of the configuration files for file sharing like smb.conf or...

Try using the terminal or disk utiliy from the install disk to manually unmount and/or repartition the disk before running the installer. From the terminal try using the umount command with sudo. Though disk utility would be a lot easier. To use the terminal to unmount, you need to first find...

That sounds like something for Windows Media Player. Have you tried it from a Windows box or VM?

So, I tried this with a JPG, still no go, did not work.

What do you mean you havn't had your system preferences or mail preferences? Do you get an error? What do you mean?

I suppose that is the next step though I very much wanted to have transparency but alas of it cannot be, it cannot be.