Earlier this week, the following oddities appeared: A dark border like that which would appear around a selected spreadsheet cell began to crop up all over the place. That's what I mean by "captions." It appears around desktop icons when they are selected, and around the HD icon before anything is selected. It appears in Finder (usually surrounding a "frame" of the window) and application windows (including 3rd party apps, there first appearing as a rectangle in the upper left corner) and dialog boxes (around one of the response buttons) when they open. It surrounds a frame in Safari windows when they open and moves according to selection thereafter.
My Apple menu now looks like this in Finder (and all apps, substituting app name for Finder): About This Mac System Profiler... Software Update... Mac OS X Software... System Preferences... Dock Location Recent Items Force Quit... (shortcut) Force Quit Finder (different shortcut) Sleep Restart... Restart Shut Down... Shut Down Log Out Sean Carroll... (shortcut) Log Out Sean Carroll (different shortcut) The Safari menu duplicates Private Browsing, and there are also duplicates in Safari's file menu (but in no other Safari menus). No other apps, whether Apple or 3rd party, show the same duplications in menus aside from the Apple menu. Has anyone encountered anything like this? I see that a very recent clone to an external drive predating this trouble doesn't show these annoying new wrinkles. That suggests a rather simple solution, assuming that the problem MUST be software (which I can't), but I would actually rather understand and fix if possible (something learned that way). I haven't changed any Preferences anywhere. The only recent software installation was updating CCC. I haven't opened any questionable-looking email attachments or followed any questionable website's injunction to click "OK" in their dialog box, either. The first thing that came to mind was funky PRAM, although no other signs of such were or have been noted. I did zap PRAM in advance of a possible battery change, but that had no effect. Just looking for clues. Thanks. Sean Sawtooth 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, SATA HD, Radeon 9800 Pro and a whole bunch o' cards and whatnot Running Leopard 10.5.8 current with all the latest Apple updates for it -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
