[Courtney]

i say etc. because this is not the end of it. since yesterday i cannot click and drag anything ( yes i do mean anything, is it my mous or the 'puter). another problem, somehow(?) my mail & safari programs seem corrupted because sometimes (often) all the words are jumbled. any clues for the newbie?

thank you!

c

[vmarks]

Hi, this is more of an OS problem, not an iMac problem.

I bet that something is seriously corrupted with your OS X installation, and would recommend that you back up files that are important to you, and then do the following in order:

Boot from the OS X install CD and instead of installing, click on File and Disk Utility - click on Disk first Aid and repair disk and repair permissions.
use Diskwarrior 3
and lastly if those two don't fix things, reinstall.

And, I'm moving this to the OS X forum.

[cybergoober]

Search your favorite Mac software update website (VersionTracker, MacUpdate etc.) for a little gem called Dragster. This will delete files known to cause drag-n-drop failure issues.

cheers