I'd say frame too.

It turned out to be the engine block and frame. Which means I need a vice and chisel to get the clamp (that attaches to the frame) off the old cable, strip a section of the new cable (near the battery) and put the clamp on there, or else buy some sort of clampy thing for this purpose. The cable terminates on the block, so that part is just a simple bolt.

Oh well. For now I got the old cable to work. (In addition to being all old and stuff, the battery terminal clamp is now broke where the bolt goes through it.)

Well, I finally managed to reset my password. Now certain applications keep asking me for a keychain password and I keep cancelling until they go away and I can keep using the app. I swear to god, I hate computers.

No, computers hate you, sarameg :) Here's the fix: [link]

I'll try that. I don't have 10.4 (this is what prompted this whole exercise) but hopefully it won't matter.

Yep, should be fine. I think some of the options may look slightly different, but the priniple remains the same.

I want to thank y'all for the advice. I did *something* slightly different than the exact directions, but it worked. Can you believe I work in a tech field and troubleshoot software? (One of my problems, and strengths, is that I just try *everything* at random and am not so good with learning any more than necessary. But I rarely keep track of what I'm doing. I'm fearless, but that leads to a lack of reproducibility. )

Argh. I just bought one of those iPod-docky clock-radio things, thinking it would be great as a clock radio, and as a "play my ipod in the bedroom when I want music" thing? Because I just got a new nano, and thought "My old iPod I can just keep there! Perfect!". Yeha, except my old one seems to be so old that it doesn't actually hook up to the clockradio thing quite right--if it's already playing, and I hook it in, it keeps playing (yay, music) but I can't fast forward or pause or anything, and the "turn on when the clockradio says as an alarm", NSM. And the ipod doesn't power up from the thing. Which makes it fairly useless. GRRR.

Meara, what kind did you get, and can you return it? I have an ihome alarm clock that came with a bunch of Docking accessories which allow it to play with different kinds of ipods, including my first generation.

meara, which ipod clock radio? I got the iHome one, and dig it. Try setting the alarm on the iPod AND the alarm clock. In the iPod, you set a playlist to play. The clock radio will just turn on.

Hmm, the more I think, the less I think you have the iHome, as the dock on it is more about power and audio. You can still control the pod via click wheel. Most curious.

No, this is not the iHome, it's a cheaper knockoff--but in theory, should still be able to control the ipod via the wheel (I don't have a clickwheel though--four buttons, it's that old) or via a little remote they included.