Oh wait, I thought of something else, do you have your computer set to turn back on after a power loss? If so, maybe you had a power outage? I think if the machine is already off w…

Thanks for the replies. root is enabled on my computer and it was scheduled to start up everyday at 7:30am. The door to my room was locked so no one had physical access to my co…

The root account is an account of its own, so you can change that password any way you can change the password on your regular account when logged in. You can also use the "passwd"…

In /Applications/Utilities, open Netinfo Manager. Under the Security tab on my system, there are three headings: Authenticate Change Root password... Enable Root User I suspect t…

Hmmmmm. You don't have Patchlink installed on your system do you? A nasty (potentially) bug has been discovered recently where Patchlink spawns a Finder process as root, giving an…

No patchlink installed. I've now changed my root password and main user account passwords. Filevault is also enabled. Not sure what else I could do to secure my system in case t…

Every user can have their own preferences, keyboard shortcuts, etc. She probably just needs to set that up properly. Though the shift-resize issue is strange. Might try rebuilding …

I've been loathe to invest time in another DB now that I'm getting comfortable w/ MySQL. I'm wondering what you experience as benefits of SQLite? How "lite" is it? Does everyt…

SQLite and MySQL are totally different. SQLite is a library/api of functions an application can use to manage data in database form, without the user requiring a database "server"…

Do you have Entourage up and running when you are within Illustrator CS? If so, close it. Any better? More info here: http://www.adobe.com/support/techdocs/330664.html

No, its not running.

Quote: Originally Posted by shadybirdstan No, its not running. Okay, what other programs do you have open? Anything?

Here are the apps currently running: Quark PhotoShop Extensis Suitcase iChat Distiller

Here are the apps currently running: Quark PhotoShop Extensis Suitcase iChat Distiller

If you quit all of those, and then re-launch Illustrator CS, is the problem gone?

No its not and its strange when I option+drag the dual cursors do show up like its going to duplicate but once I release it does not.

Wild, sorry man...I've only seen this issue with some 3rd-party application running in the background.

Yea, I can't figure it out. Of course my co-worker caused it somehow because nothing on the machine has changed and I can't even think what to type into Google to fix it.

Can you log in as another user and see if the problem happens?

There are no other user accounts .

When you do an OS install you have to do a custom installation and deselect the apps you do not want. The question is why would you want to get rid of those applications anyway? Mo…

Quote: Originally Posted by Big Mac When you do an OS install you have to do a custom installation and deselect the apps you do not want. The question is why would you want to g…

Not via the migration assistant, no.

Quote: Originally Posted by onlykaria i want to remove all the bundled junk that came with my system... so i ran the install disc, and selected clean install.... but then the …

Quote: Originally Posted by onlykaria speaking of data transfer the computer is asking for a firewire to firewire cable which i dont have... can i use usb to usb or ethernet cab…