Wow. How do you guys come up with this stuff?! I'm so impressed.
Problem is not yet solved, but as a new MAC user, I am learning so much
about how my little machine works, thanks to your generousity. Thank
you. (Next time I will come to the boards instead of paying an IT-tech
for a house-call to troubleshoot my wireless network... several hours
later, only to realise that it's my printer which is not compatible
with airport.)
Yes, verify and repairing disk permissions was my first step, and I did
it again after walking through all the steps Chris suggested. I do not
have Symantec or Itego on this machine, just MACSCAN spyware sweeper,
which shouldn't interfere. (btw, macscan hasn't found anything yet,
even though I've been to some pretty sketchy sites lately -- have been
doing research on prostitution -- maybe I should get a virus protection
package...or are MACs as impervious to viruses as they say?!)
Another option I considered, Larry, was an external problem. I use
Entourage to pick up mail from several accounts, including hotmail. My
hotmail account went wonky just about the same time Entourage started
acting up... could be purely coincidence, but with msn changing over to
msn live, Entourage could be choking on the glitch. (by "wonky", I mean
-- wouldn't accept password, locked out for false attempts, and the
password reset information showed up in German... ) If I could get
Entourage to respond at all, I would probably start by deleting that
identity entirely and setting it up again. I have already synched all
my mail data into (forgive me, guys!) outlook express on my backup
windows machine. If we can't solve this in the next few days, I'm
probably going to trash Entourage and re-install - or find another mail
app.
My Entourage does not have enough data in it to be choking like this. I
used it primarily for email, and my set-up is only six months old.
