I think I've fixed my Internet Explorer home-page retention problem. Not sure exactly which action cured it, but I went into IE's preferences and cleared cache, history, cookies and everything else I could find to clear. After doing that it has held its home page through several restarts.
Safari is a different story. I tried clearing caches, etc. as I had done in IE, but it still insisted on reverting back to http://home.netscape.home/apple.adp after a log out. I then deleted Safari and all visible related files (anything with the word "safari" in it). I re-downloaded it and reinstalled it, but the problem persists. I've sent a bug report to Apple. I suspect that some system preference file has that URL hardcoded into it and that the system reads that file when it starts up and Safari is using that system setting. As long as I don't log out, Safari will honor the changed home page setting, even if I quit Safari and relaunch it several times. But as soon as I log out -- Safari goes back to its old home page. Now that I've been playing around with preferences: What are all those "com.xxxxetc." files in my home directory's Library/Preferences folder? They appear to be text files and open in BBEdit if I double click them. Are these just preference files? If so, can I delete them the same way I would often delete preference files is OS 9 when I was having trouble with a particular program? Another question for the experts: Suppose I've pressed the power button and clicked on the "Shut Down" button and then remember that there's one little thing I meant to do before shutting down. Is there any way to cancel or interrupt the shut down process so I don't have to wait for it shut all the way down and then restart? Dan | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
