[Cadaver]

So I've got a separate (internal) 500GB hard drive acting as my Time Machine backup device. Leopard is set to backup my entire main hard drive with the exception of my Parallels disk image and my Microsoft User Data folder (though I don't use Entourage, so not much in there changes).

I've noticed however, that every so often Leopard will use the copy of an application in the Time Machine folder rather than the one in my /Applications folder on my boot drive. TextEdit does this a lot. I've never moved /Applications from its standard place to a different volume or something like that, so I'm not sure why this behavior is manifesting.

Permissions have been repaired... No third-party enhancers or OS utilities like Onyx have been used to manipulate system settings... pretty vanilla system as far as OS add-ons.

Anyone have any thoughts? Its kind of annoying to have an icon for TextEdit in my dock, just to double click on a file and have another TextEdit appear in my dock as the copy out of the Time Machine folder launches instead.

(FWIW, computer is a Mac Pro 2.66GHz. Over 140GB of free space remains on the boot drive. Leopard install was an Archive and Install, not an Upgrade)

[CharlesS]

Try trashing the LaunchServices caches. Go in /Library/Caches and trash everything that begins with com.apple.LaunchServices and ends with .csstore. Then reboot and see if this still happens.

[Cadaver]

I'll give it a try. I thought about doing that earlier, but I don't want to all of a sudden have the OS start using every app off the Time Machine volume instead of /Applications.

[CharlesS]

I really wouldn't worry about that happening.