nihil,

Sorry about the late reply. I live in HK and plus I lost my password this morning. What are the chances! Anyway.

Thanks a lot for the link. I'll try it out.

I know that this forum runs largely on people running Linuxs and Windows, but I read somewhere a symbolic link on a Mac to
/tmp (from private/tmp) was needed and if this was lost the problems I had would occur. This doesn't seem to be there when I ls -h my drive, but the repair programs say it's there...

Any ideas? Does Unix have anything like that?

Thanks a lot for the help so far,
DCheng