Okay. I came home last week to my parent's house. THey have an older iMac running OS 10.2. I was fooling around with it, and noticed that they hadn't run Software Update since they got Jaguar, so 10.2.5 and Quicktime, etc. was available.
Now, they're on dialup, and it was late at night, so I just decided to quickly grab the Quicktime update. I went to bed, got up the next morning, but the update hadn't completed....the progress bar was stopped halfway. I figured the internet had craped out or something.
Howeer, I went to load something from the Dock, and I got the spinning beach ball...and nothing. The computer froze. I was annoyed, but I had to hard restart. When the Finder loaded again, I clicked on the Dock...and it froze again. Even better, the application you click on goes dark from the highlight of your mouseclick...and that's it. It immediately freezes, with the icon still highlighted.
I keep hard restarting, but no matter what I do, I get a permanent beach ball whenever I try to do something. If I click on the Finder menu bar, it'll freeze after perusing a menu or two. Not even doing anything, just mousing through menus! The only thing I've managed to be able to do is immediately click "Restart" upon login, although even that doesn't work if you wait a couple seconds for everything to load.
So. Mac OS X, and Ive got a permanent beach ball. To make it even worse, my Jaguar CD is a couple thousand miles away in Edmonton, in storage with my school supplies. I only have the old OS 10.1 CD here, so I can't really do a system restore. I'm confuzzled. This is getting me annoyed....
greg
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