[San Acoustic]

I'm running System 9.1 on and blue-and-white G3, 350 megahertz with 128 real RAM and 129 virtual.

I downloaded and installed QuickTime 5.0.2. It killed my desktop picture (a tiff) and slowed the entire computer to a crawl. I could draw the icons with a pencil and crayon faster than they would appear after a reboot.

I pulled the main QuickTime extension, then rebooted. The computer ran normally. After more fuitile fiddling, I trashed all of QuickTime and reloaded version 4 from my System 9 CD. All works well again, except that it's too old a version of QT. There is no newer version, except for 5.02 on the Apple site, that I can find.

Is this problem mine alone or has it affected others? Anyone have a cure?

[ 07-11-2001: Message edited by: San Acoustic ]

[Jacke]

I lost all ability to view AVI movies with the update to 5.0.2, so there is definitely something wrong with that version.

[San Acoustic]

I downloaded 5.0.2 again this morning (7/12/01) and it works fine. I had made no changes to the extensions load or the control panels or to anything else. Apple fixed the problem unannounced or the ghost in the machine ended its strike. Maybe it was the phase of the moon.