[smithken31100]

This is what I get for not making an image before doing an update/system maintenance.

I did the 10.4.4 update last night, repaired permissions AFTER the update but not before and I used Main Menu to clean out all of the caches. This morning I went to check my mail and found out my ~/Library/Keychain folder is empty. I used the Keychain Access utility to reset my keychain and it says "Unable to update ~/Library/Keychains" and then on the next line it says "Something else went wrong". I compared permissions on ~/Library/Keychains with my iBook and they agree, I checked each individual folder. I have not updated the iBook or used Main Menu on it, the iBook has Tiger 10.4.3 on it. I have a backup copy of my login.keychain file from before the update/system maintenance and copied that to the ~/Library/Keychains folder. When I used the Keychain Access utility to repair the backup login.keychain file it says "Unable to open ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain (-25312)".

Is there something else I can try or do I have to reformat the drive and reinstall Tiger? I though I gave up reinstalling OS's when I dumped Windows.

[smithken31100]

I found the answer. In another forum, I don't remember which, someone said they were having a simular problem. Their solution was to use Spotlight to find any files with a .keychain extension and rename them so OS X couldn't find them. I just copied them to removable storage and then deleted them, including system.keychain. I then logged out and rebooted. Keychain is working properly now, at least a lot better than it was, it's only been 10 minutes since I got it working again.