IF you have a Mac which crashes, you need to get someone competent in to tweak it for you. Reinstalling sounds like overkill to me -- of course I don't know the whole history and you could have gotten a rare unit which had a RAM chip askew in it or some such.

Everyone knows where I stand on this issue. I use Windows all day at work and am always delighted to get home to my Mac.   I have not used Leopard (the latest version of the Mac OS) but every version of OSX I have used up until now has been robust and stable.

Kendall, you will find there is hardly any learning curve for the kind of work you do -- the applications are all very similar.

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