ok, first off I have a new(ish) 120gb HD, so backing up is kind of impossible at the moment. it's my largest hard drive. all my other hard drives would barely reach half the capacity. even with all that space, I only have around 22gb free. I know, get an external hard drive, but I have a couple machines that need new internal hard drives first.

and, this machine has ran many OSes since I got it in Devember 2005. first, I ran Ubuntu 5.10 on it, then Mac OS 9.2.2 for a stretch. Then, I went back to ubuntu, but I was running 6.06. then, I ran Mac OS 10.3 for a week, and finally, I arrived at 10.4 in october of last year. When I had it running strictly 9.2.2, it ran great. I don't know what could be causing it, my setup has changed greatly over time. And I do not have the time to strip it down to stock.

-digital