[Volanges]

First I will go under the assumption that when I first open a finder window I'm shown an icon for my Harddrive and another for Network (I realize I could change this in preferences, but it's just how I've always had it)

1) It's never made much sense to me to have a Network icon as it just sits there and I never use it -- click on it was never anything there. Always assumed it was for computers that were on a network of computers, in a traditional sense in an office, etc. -- so I just ignored it but thought it strange that as a home computer I couldn't get rid of it being on my finder window.

2) All of a sudden lately though the Network icon has been doing strange things -- for some reason I clicked on it the other day and there was this new black server icon I had never encountered. Figured out upon closer inspection that it was an alias icon, and when you clicked on that it thowed an alias icon of my entire harddrive, and then clicking on that a complete remapping of my entire file architecture. Why is this happening?

3) Tonight, in an effort to completely rid all files from Norton Utilities I had to log in as Root and delete about 3-5 files; quickly logged back in to my normal user name. Now I just happened to click on the Network icon again and there now also appears next to the black server alias a "Library" folder containing 2 folders: "Documentation" and "Preferences" -- all are empty. When I look at the "Info" part on these folders they were created at 8:14pm and that seems around the time I logged in and out as Root, though I'm ot positive. Just seems like a likely coincidence, though this is the ONLY time I've ever had to log in as Root so the other icons I mentioned (the aliases of Server and Harddrive, etc.)

What should I make of this -- it is rather odd, isn't it? Any cause for worry? And if so how do I correct this problem?

Many thanks

[- - e r i k - -]

Buy Panther, be happy. The network icon was useless until now.

[Volanges]

The other odd thing now is that my "Apple" icon menu pulls down suddenly in a different manner.

"About This Mac" is still there but now "Get Apple Software" or whatever it was called is entirely gone.

And now, instead of simply clicking on a line that says "System Preferences" and that window opening up, it says "System Preferences" but followed by an arrow which then opens up a side bar that then simply lists each and every preference category by name -- ODD.

Then it only lists "Log Out" at the bottom and "Sleep: and"Restart" have disappeared completely -- but alas can be found by clicking on "System Services".

Why on earth would this all of a sudden change? Did I hit select something somewhere and not realize that this could even be done?

[also -- for reference: read my recent exploits in the Land of Symantec Excommunication and maybe there's some odd nexus involved

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.p...hreadid=182114

[Sven G]

Not sure about the cause of your other problems, but the default state of the Network folder (in Jaguar) is to have, inside it, 3 folders and 1 alias: Applications, Library, Users and Servers - nothing to be worried about from this point of view...