Here's the deal: Kids are kids. Kids are smart. They can out flummox the best of programmers. They can figure out the ONE thing you shouldn't do and do it. Takes 'em like, five minutes. People with kids at home know what I'm talking about.
Teachers are overworked and most schools don't have a budget for classroom SysAd. One teacher generally lords it over the others, Mr. ClassroomTech, changing passwords and permissions then gets tired of having to help everybody with every little thing and sort of "forgets" where he put the password thingee.
So if the machine is not intentded to be OSXable don't try the friendly Uber Wonk stuff to make it so. Don't try to upgrade or do anything fancy or extra or BELIEVE ME, within one symester it'll be a bookend again.
Lots more of reasons why this happens, but believe me, the best thing to do is copy off whatever you can copy off then use a utility program and wipe it. Wipe it good. Do a clean reinstall from whatever discs you have and then leave her the disc.
It pains a MAC purest to leave five year old software alone but you know, in grade school, did you start reading with Ubu Roi?
Hope this is a help,
Steven Lee Stinnett Tarzana CA 818.881.7219
www.stevenlee-idraw.com
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