I suspect what you did (and what you needed to do) was reselect your boot drive in the Startup Disk prefpane. Correct?

In order for the name service to work properly, the DHCP client ID and the "Sharing name" should be the same on the Macs. And naturally they should not include spaces or non-alphanumeric characters.

IE is a deprecated browser on the Mac and is woefully out of date (it's not had any additional coding changes since 2003). It's no longer distributed by Microsoft for use. As noted previously you...

It's not a virus.

Did you restart after removing the font?

It's crashing (whatever you're using to try and download), you should check the crashlog for clues as to why. Also, log in as another user and check to see if the problem happens there as well, or...

There should not be a difference. I can't imagine you had 4GB worth of swap files. Both drives are HFS+, so the block sizes are the same. Personally I don't care for "Restore" at all. I get much...

Movies from where? From inside the Finder, or inside iTunes, or what?
What version of OS X?

More info please...

What version of OS X are you running and what version of the Installer discs do you have?

There's no wild viruses for Mac OS X.
There's no wild spyware for Mac OS X.

You're safe to connect it to the internet.

Locked itself? Not sure what that means....

You still didn't say if you're using AutoLogin. Anyway, there's a system wide login screen pref file at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist, you could try moving that and then...

Are you using autologin? Sounds like you are and it's crapping out before it logs you in, which means (most likely) that you can boot in safe mode and move the...

Well, that would have been your next step. I have no idea what device was having the problem, some USB device you had plugged in. As for saft, I would hope you know what it is, as you installed it...

Try updating the OS again and copy & paste into a reply the relevant info from /var/log/install.log and /var/log/system.log. If you sent one earlier I never got it, but there's some heavy anti-spam...

Glad that worked.. what a weird work around for an (still) unknown problem.

Yes.. don't need it.

Do you have the DivX codec installed?

Strangely, have you tried starting up GarageBand? Supposedly this fixed lost sound issues in RealPlayer (at least).
...

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20346

Tryupdating saft too.. it's bitching quite a bit in your console log.

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This one.

Also, please put your pasted data in [code] tags (the # button in Advanced editing) to make it human readable.

Anyway, I need the results from /var/log/install.log

All I see there...

You've never installed anything like RadMind or DeepFreeze, and this is your computer at home, not part of a school or job that might have locked the Mac into a kiosk-mode that always replaces any...

Well, all the codecs are installed in either /Library/Quicktime, or ~/Library/Quicktime.

How sure are you that the CD's software is for a Mac? Sounds more likely that it's for a PC (Windows). There should clearly be an installer if there's a Mac version of the software. Otherwise, you...

The White Screen with the Apple is the phase where the OS is atttempting to check (and repair, if possible) problems with the file system. If it stays there forever and a day, it's most likely that...

It's entirely possible that you (your computer's IP) were banned from the site.

Do you get an IP address when you connect via AE? Or do you get a 169.x.x.x address?

System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Put the ccomptuer to sleep when it's inactive for: Change to Never

1) Is the router doing MAC filtering?
2) Try creating a new Location in the Network prefpane and connection to the wireless network then.

Please post the results of:

df

yellow% df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk1s9 234419560 186771496 47136064 80% /...

/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app

You're not out of disk space, right?

It works fine.. it's not great, but it works most of the time.

Just make sure you can meet the requirements:

That's odd.. where are you checking to see the OS version? Please post the results of (in the Terminal.app):

sw_vers

yellow% sw_vers
ProductName: Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.4.6...

Well, I have quite a few PB G4s that I support (and have supported) and never had this problem.

Since you're using the same cable, it's unlikely to be a cable problem (as you said). But when I...

You may be correct that it's not the HD if it's verified.. but it's definitely hardware realated, and you're still well within your warranty period, so taking it to a Certified Apple Repair Center is...

You should not have to continually reinstall the OS. The symptoms you describe are indicitive of a failing HD. Particularlly the spinning wheel at the Grey Apple screen. During this time the OS...

Well, I'm not convinced that site works with Macs.

I had it beachball Safari on me when I tried to close the tab to that site.

Your alternative? Reinstall the OS.

That's normal.. When the computer sleeps, all network connections are severed.

Hardware problem. Your HD is failing. Get it replaced through AppleCare.

Are you 100% sure all the Network settings are the same?