Hi, first off all thanks to Peter and John, I think the problem could be as 
you said in the start up items.

I had a look and have 33K alias' for: IE, Iomega Driver, MSN Messenger 
and OE along with, this could be it, a Kodak Precision Startup that is 
listed as an application program, 65K.

Now I am not too sure what this is for. I think, big guess here, it may 
have been installed automatically when I ran then installer for the Epson 
1650 scanner. As this is about the same time period I have been getting 
the dialog box for.

I was thinking of taking it out of the startup items folder then starting up 
to see if the dialog box opens up again, bit am a little concerned that I 
might stuff something up.

But if this works where then would this application program go and 
would I need to put an alias for it back in the startup items folder?
I have tried "get info" but there is not really much there.

Thanks

Matt