OK I screwed up!!! After updating my iMac (which has run for the most part perefectly since January). My Colleague (a long time mac head) and I enjoyed watching SJ's presentation on iTunes 7 and the new iPods, iTV etc... After this event (and we have to admit whenever SJ gets up and talks its an event) I updated both my Intel iMac (my work machine not mine sadly) and my MacBook Pro (mine all mine mu ha ha ha ha cost me enough though). Ok back to my screwed up. I had a truckload of apps open (doin some rails dev & rubycocoa among other things) ran software update and in the process of restarting Preview.app just hung on for grim death and would not let the iMac restart. So like my usually impatient self I waited a little. Which tunred out to be not enough. So I killed the power and re-booted up expecting it all to "magically work". No such luck! I essentialy killed my profile. I now cant log in as myself, tried all the tricks I now (and Apple support knows) to no avail! However all seemed good on my MacBook Pro, which I am using to write this post! I later noticed that some apps will no longer run on my macbook, like MS Office and Photoshop! They just bounce once in the dock and the stop. A quick look at the console reveals a crash report from the particular app. Excel photoshop word powerpoint. Hang on am I seeing a pattern. These are all PPC apps maybe there are some rosetta issues. Anyone else had any dramas? MacBook is running fine aside from PPC apps it seems. Can anyone help clarify this or am I totally deluded! Peace! Impurist