Suddenly I couldn't put an application into the Application folder for all to use. WHAT? And of course I am the admin account. This forced me to use the Utilities that came with the eMac. A run of "Repair Permissions" and I am once more in the driver's seat. At least the Mac is letting me think so for awhile. First time I had run that program in the year and a month and a half since buying the Mac, and I must say that the utilities, like all things Mac, run with a quiet confident look and feel. Now my guilt resides in not using the iPod enough.