Suffering from system collapse here...was debugging a program in OS 9.2.2 (was faster turnaround than in Classic), had to do a hard restart , and now the thing flashes the Mac Icon, alternating with the ? System icon... I thought zapping the PRAM would result in a restart into OS X at least, but nothing...same. Am I going to have to reinstall everything??? OS 8.6 didn't do me wrong like this combo nightmare of 9 and X. Arrrrrrrgh. Me fears for me files. Barrie Jones, I need your email mailed to me again (using older machine right now) Robert Bob