btw., if you want to find me between the other lambs, thats easy: i am the black one.

That explain lots of things.... LOL 

I haven not removed anything. i use a machine specific 922, without bullshit like "maps" and without user&groups and keychain (i cant really tell if those are in a standard install or not), plus the latest updates for quicktime, nividia and ati, and plus some 20 third party extensions in addition.

this is, like i said before, because my audio machine is not used for audio only, so i can hardly "optimize" for that purpose.

Is your Install MAX focused or multimedia focused? Or Office ?

if i could, i´d really like to remove the appearance manager ("themes"), and - most of the time - navigation services, but thats not possible after OS850. the latter can be trap-patched, but i havent found a good solution yet ...

I use A-dock as "appearance manager" and recommend it for any previous OSX user new to OS9.  http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/a-dock-301

Also Greg Browser is recommended for any previous OSX user new to OS9 http://kaleidoscope.net/greg/browser.html

With these 2 any OSX user can use OS9!