Hi all,

A friend of mine has a fairly new iBook running OS X. Yesterday, she 
was using it to surf the net, then shut it down, however later when 
she went to start it up, it is hanging at "searching directory 
services" and is still doing so.

I'm by no means an expert on OSX - does anyone else have any ideas on 
what could have gone wrong and how she might fix it? Or is it time 
for a system reinstall...

Thanks,
Meg