You guys are scaring the hell out of me! So much for blindly stumbling forward. I guess I was lucky. I just went ahead and "clicked" and everything went as expected on a "Mac". This is reminding me of the PC world. geez! George On Dec 18, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Andy Skuse wrote: > To go along with my earlier post on upgrading to Mac OS 10.5.6 here's > the latest from Macfixit.com. > Note the one line below that I marked in bold and underlined regarding > major hard drive corruption. This rarely happens with Mac OS updates > but it highlights the need for a full clone-type backup before > updating. If you do decide to update, download the combo update file > to your hard drive, then run Disk Utility and repair the drive and > permissions, then dbl-click the combo update package and install it. > > > Andy > --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>