>I'm not sure how else to describe the application.  The flight
>sim (X-plane) needs to read/write the prefs (different from Mac OSX
>prefs, this is the starting location, aircraft, etc.)  Standard
>trouble shooting practice is to delete the prefs directory (file?).

I don't know. I do know that what you describe makes me nervous. Apps 
need to be kept under control to prevent bad things from happening.

>I'd be uneasy with that.  I have little snitch running in an
>attempt to prevent that kind of behavior.

Little Snitch, while good protection, is for something else. It traps 
applications that try to phone home. If you run a rogue app on your 
computer it could disable Little Snitch first and you will never know 
what happend.


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