Followup Re: generic screen w/no Finder in OS X?

[Beverly Woods]

Thanks to everyone who wrote with info and suggestions. Near as I can tell, 
due to her being on a cable modem connection, after she updated by CD to 
10.3.4, the Mac downloaded and installed the 10.3.8 update before my mom 
really knew what was happening. That or the other update seem to have 
really trashed that partition's permissions beyond Disk Utility's ability 
to fix. There really just was no Finder, and nothing we tried would get one 
going.

Fortunately there was another empty partition on the hard drive, so I had 
her install a fresh 10.3.4 on that, and after a lot of work changing 
ownership of her old files (from Unknown and Staff and You Have No Access), 
we got her mail database and documents moved over and working. So we're up 
and running again now with a fresh install.

Thanks again for your help,
Beverly
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