Just for fun, I dragged my Time Machine icon from the dock - poof - gone. I then was able to just drag the Time Machine icon from the Applications folder onto the dock. Harmony restored. Paul Good lord, people, have I been speaking in tongues all this while, or is there some kind of Internet word-scrambling voodoo at work here? Once more: when Time Machine is opened, the Dock disappears. It always has. The usual Desktop, with its volume icons along one edge and the Dock along another gives way to Apple's patented deep-space image in which an ostensibly infinite succession of root-level hard-drive windows recede into infinity. --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>