I use a Mac G3 with OS 8.6 (because I run a lot of older apps)--I use iCab on the web, because it runs more quickly and smoothly than anything else--so yesterday, I clicked on a link, a blank page came up, and the screen froze(I think it was on the Excite homepage)--I restarted, the Mac face came up, then the screen flicked and flashed and went dark--on restart, the dreaded question mark came up--

I rebooted from the Techtools Pro disk, but was unable to rebuild the directory--the Mac disk utility told me that there was an invalid B-Tree PEOF and that it was impossible to fix--I looked it up and bought Disk Warrior, which built a new directory--when I finally got the hard drive back, about 2 of the 4 gigs of stuff I had on it were gone--the odd thing was that almost every application had been zapped, as well as the operating system--

I do back-up, and I keep installers for most of the software archived (though some of my older programs require keys(an of course, they are the ones that are no longer supported by anyone)--so the losses can be mostly recouped--I am still trying to figure out what happened--any thoughts from the technically inclined?