"Darwin/BSD (Bj-K-Ts-Computer.local) (console) login:"

Have you tried just hitting return?

Alas, I must go to work now. Perhaps others will have suggestions.

Perkins, perhaps you can delete the Safari application and reinstall from the installer disk.this article from Apple is for Tiger, but the same should work: [link]

I didn't even need to do that. I just had to delete the old version and click on the icon for new one.

New toys are fun!

I want to know how I can network my desktop and laptop together. Both are PC, my desktop is several years old and an HP , runs Windows XP, McKay the Laptop is shiny and new and runs Vista and is wireless. My desktop is not, however it is attached to the router.

I'm not sure what else I need to tell you but any help would be great.

Also I'm thinking about getting a docking station for McKay, I use the laptop almost exclusively now and have it hooked up to my monitor. But using the trackpad is starting to hurt my wrist. I'd also like something that I can hook my speakers up to if at all possible. I'll have to look and see what kind of speakers they are (they are several years old at this point). Any advice on that would be helpful.

bonny, that's what I was seeing when my iMac was acting up a couple of weeks ago. My problem turned out to be a corrupted Framework file, which my husband found and fixed.

He says cd /var/log let him look in the log file system.log (edit or vi) and if you can get to that it will tell you what is failing.

For logging in, you may have to use a truncated username (ie, my user name is tskaredoff but I had to use tskaredo to log in on the "Darwin" screen).

-t, you have provided some hope, thank you so much.

::quietly setting down the straight razor::

Now all I have to do is set the system to give me the Darwin screen again. I'm just getting the blue screen with the spinning symbol. And I have to unplug every time. This could take a while.

But it is hugely helpful to know that you overcame this issue...or that it MIGHT be possible to over come it. Right now, my head hurts too much to keep unplugging and poking the machine. A bath, a good cry and bedtime. I'll get back on it tomorrow.

Thanks again. It really is a comfort...

As I'm reinstalling apps and getting my iMac back up and running from the HD failure, I can't help but notice Firefox download manager is acting strangely. Anytime I download something, it does not show up in the download manager, and it saves it with some random nonsense name. As if it was a temp file. Half the dmg's d/l'd don't download completely and I get a "corrupted zip file" type of warning when I try to open it. Things download fine with Safari, but I prefer using Firefox, so I don't think it's a MacOS thing.

Any thoughts? I've already tried re-downloading Firefox and Reinstalling. Still have same problem.

I bet you need to create a new profile in firefox and reinstall your extensions.

I have had to do this every 1-2 months with firefox because I'm running dozens of extensions on it. It's my fault, but I backup my firefox weekly so it isn't a problem if I have to reinstall it.

Mozilla has a really set of instructions on how to move stuff over to a new profile:

[link]

Bonnie, I found a reference somewhere earlier today that if you get the spinning symbol, let it run overnight or longer, it might be fixing something.

interesting. I went to add a new profile, and apparently Firefox doesn't have the Profile Manager in its package. I wonder if that could be the problem?