you always need volume controls

Me, NSM. I don't control volume from my DVD remote, so I've never thought of needing it under Devices. I just head in and get right back to Activities ASAP.

Question: I crash Firefox a fair amount. Just did it now trying to get into Cute Overload. It happens more frequently at work, where I run NT on a old and memory-impaired Dell, but it happens a decent amount at home on a 5 year old Mac G3 running 10.4, too. Is it me (in both places?), or is this a known Firefox thing?

DVD drive update -- the fix suggested in Kevin's link has partially fixed the problem. The Mac can now play all DVDs...except the ones it creates. (Doesn't seem to matter if we create a DVD with iDVD, DVD Studio Pro, or just by dragging QT files and hitting "burn" from the finder -- once they're done, they're all read as "Untitled CD" and completely unplayable.)

I am stumped.

flea - do you have any Firefox extensions installed? It's a common cause of Firefox crashes.

Nope. None at home; I think one here at work.

Firefox is pretty memory hungry. How much memory do you have on both machines, do you know? I'd try disabling the extension at work also and see if it improves things also.

Bon Bon, I'd C&P to an empty document and save the new doc over it. Since you tried selecting another printer, you are not printing to a file that is really a printer. I don't suppose you have "print selection" checked, with nothing selected or worse one space selected? That is one way to get word to print nothing:

signed

Someone who has made every possible stupid mistake using word.

Mac question:

I just got an external HD for the Mini. It connects via USB and came preformatted with FAT32. Since it may be useful to occasionally use it to transfer files to my XP machine, I'd like to leave it as FAT32.

There's not a lot of room on the Mac's internal HD, so I thought I'd move everything in the Movie folder over to the new external drive. This sort of worked -- I control-dragged the Movie folder over, and everything transferred fine. In addition, the sidebar automatically points to the new location. However, when I use the FrontRow thingie, it can't find any movies. And the internal HD is showing no additional free space, so I can't move the Movie folder back.

Soooo... how do I get FrontRow to see the new Movie folder, and how do I get the internal HD to free up the space?

Here's another question. I got this Mac used and FileVault was turned on. I want to turn it off as there's nothing especially valuable or private on this machine and I find it more annoying than anything. When I tried to turn it off, I got the following message:

Turning off FileVault requires an additional 4092.0 GB of free disk space to create an unencrypted copy of the home folder.

WTF? The total drive is only 80GB! Is this somehow connected to my previous query?

You may be doing this already and I just missed it, but when I did something similar with all my music, I created an alias folder in the old location that pointed to the new.