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Before you jump in with the OS upgrade, my Mac guru sent me this:
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"For those planning on upgrading to Mac OS 10.50 (Leopard) be advised that not unlike Windows, performing a straight upgrade may do harm. Evidently Apple has released a product that has at least one serious startup problem. MacFixit claims that this is possibly due to Apple's 6 month delay in releasing Leopard backing them up to a drop-dead release date of October. Maybe this is why they waited until the very last Friday of October.
Apple originally released OS 10.00 prematurely to compete with the release of Windows XP. So don't believe that Apple won't release a premature Leopard as they run late, push into the holiday season and in the process frustrate and spook out Wall Street.
The main trouble being reported is a startup blue screen freeze following a standard upgrade. To avoid this problem it is advised to perform an "Archive and Install" . This will create a new System folder and may require reinstallation of software (e.g. Adobe CS2 and QuarkXPress). Frankly, one should always perform this type of upgrade regardless of what Mac OS you are moving up to.
Even though the OS was only released last night, many many complaints have already been logged. Some may advise to wait for at least the first patch, 10.5.1. And possibly even a new installer altogether. This last recommendation would not be unique. Initial Tiger install disks had trouble too.
Also, if you are running 10.28 and have a password longer than 8 characters, you may also have trouble with Leopard. There is a fix."
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He doesn't elaborate about the fix, but I can find out if anyone is interested.
FWIW. Be careful out there.
Sherwood
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