I didn't buy Disk Warrior at the time because I wasn't doing anything with OSX then. I'm hardly using it now, except to install Panther in anticipation of FinMac 2K4, and trying to upgrade all the (numerous!) relevant apps I have that are not OSX compatible.
Well, I guess that's a good portion of the reason you haven't had the more-than-positive experience the rest of us have had with Panther.
I do not have "a reasonably decent backup system." I've been backing up to CDs, wh. are immensely smaller than my boot drive.
That's all I use. It's just a matter of arranging the data to be backed up. I don't need to back up system and application files I have installers for. Disk Copy/Disk Utility are very handy in this respect and there is another Apple utility called Backup available as well.
Even if I invested in an auxiliary drive just for backups, there's all those invisible system files that wouldn't copy over, and would make the copied System folder useless for restoration purposes.
It's really easy to "Show Invisibles" on OS X. It's common knowledge and should be available at places like MacOSXHints.com. If not, I have a freely available applet which can do this.
To top it all off, I've managed to *lose* the original System 9 CDs that came with my computer!
That appears to be the real source of your problems here. I can tell you that I misplaced my Jaguar disks last spring and couldn't find them for two months so I know what it feels like...
Philip Aker http://www.aker.ca
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