on 04/10/04 21:44, Claire Hart at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When nothing is open and all applications (according to the dock) are > not open, and my menu bar has "finder" as the open application", and I > click "help", there be nothing in the resulting opened window. I have > Help's own red/yellow/green buttons, the left/right arrows, the little > house button, the "ask a question" field, and nothing in the white area > below it. The left/right arrows are black, but go nowhere. Clicking > the little house takes me nowhere. When I type anything in the "ask a > question" field and hit "enter", nothing happens as a result. > > I'm using Panther on a 17" PB 1.5GHz. My iMac DV400 also is running on > Panther. On my iMac, it works fine. I close all apps, click "Help", > and get the usual stuff filling in the big white space: the big X on > the left half and a few links on the right, such as What's New, etc... > > I discovered this as a result of taking Charles' advice on the iMac > list to check if I had changed my firewall setup. Since I don't know > how to change my firewall setup, I thought I'd learn by going to help. > The reason why Charles thought I needed to check my firewall setup is > because I can't log into iTunes because of error 5555 (whatever that > is). This feels like the domino effect... or maybe the twilight > zone... > > Claire >
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