Sauron, I'm pretty sure the one you're talking about (lost all preferences and stuff) is me... I deleted the post though since it had nothing to do with LW (these are LW posts after all) since it was not active when my Mac started acting up.

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iMac G4 OSX 10.3.9
RAM 256MB
LW 4.10.5 Basic
ADSL anything from 3 to 8Mbps/around 1024kbps

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