I agree about At Ease. The only reason I brought it up is because I was working on an iMac yesterday with 8.6, At Ease with a password that none of us knew (school surplus machine), and a broken CD-ROM drive!

And about 9.2.2 bloat--ever notice how many extensions come pre-loaded on an OS 9 install? Add in a few drivers, etc and you have a parade that fills up the width of the screen and then some.