I guess it's looking that way. It is running more or less ok in the one user setting but it's been a little unstable for quite a while, stuff like it being unable to shut down or restart correctly,...

The other odd thing is, I don't have access to the administrator.computername account - I tried the pw I set up with the 'regular' administrator account, didn't work, tried no password, no dice...

Recreate by copying desktop and documents to 'new' user?

I had figured that was the way around it, but I'm just curious as to why it happened, and I could swear I hadn't seen the...

Odd thing happened after logging out of my administrator settings, into another user, then back to the administrator - got a different desktop, more the default out of the (win 2k sp4) one, with the...

I'm 46 so maybe in some ways on the upper cusp of computer cogniscenti if you know what I mean, I know a guy who is probably ten years max older than me and was quite au fait with some pretty complex...

Ooops - my bad - but poster didn't SAY it was to be a server, but to run on OSX server - I suppose it follows it might be server not client...but there you go. Hopefully this has all been some help.

Whoa, I was going to say Clam is complicated to install but I wasn't looking at CLamx but something else that's supposed to be platform independent, but needs to be compiled - sounds scary to me if...

Hi - not sure if it'll run on OSX server, but Cyberduck is fantastic, and gets updated all the time. It's donationware, and well worth it.

I also tried a package called Fugu, which didn't work...

Tried a Norton Systemworks emergency disk - yeah I didn't have time to create a proper emergency disk before I moved overseas - hoping it'd have the ability to repair the registry or whatever the...

Ummmmm...in the REST of the English-speaking world, the UK, Australia, NZ, etc etc etc your 'nan' (short for 'Nanna') is your Grandmother.

A Nanny is always a Nanny.

Actually, 'Nan' is not just...

An update - I suddenly remembered there is a program on the computer that has a HASP dongle, and wondered if this would be the cause of the problems, but plugging it in didn't help. I am wondering...

OK - tried disconnecting the other drives, and disabled them in bios.> No dice.

Tried a system disk from another computer - windows ME- it booted fine then wanted to instal drivers for all the new...

That's a good idea, although I'd sort of done that, when I was troubleshooting the video card insertion problem - There are several new pieces of hardware - i did wonder about installing them one at...

Hi - I know I haven't made it easy on myself (read on) but I'm kind of stuck at the moment.

I moved overseas a few months ago, and to save space (boy am I regretting it) decided not to bring tower...