Good info! Just curious are you afraid to upgrade to 9? Or is it a money thing? The reason I ask is that even with your hardware you will see a noticable stability and performace change by upgrading to 9.2. I don't think you can still buy 9.2 at retail, but if you by OSX then you get 9.2 full version included. Depending on your G3 card, you can use a driver to make 10.1 work on your system just fine. The bottom line is that 9.2.x is much more stable then os8.x ever was. Regards, PAGZone