Many thanks - investigated Multiple Users and it works very well.

>| Mac OS 9 comes with a new facility, called Multiple Users, which is
>| designed to replace At Ease. So, no testing or validation of At Ease
>| under Mac OS 9 was done. The functionality of Multiple Users is much
>| the same as At Ease, with improvements and better integration.
>|
>| At Ease and Multiple Users cannot be used or installed together. If
>| Multiple Users is installed at startup, even if not activated, it
>| removes any older At Ease pieces and places them in the Trash.
>
>I'm not entirely convinced by this -- I have a dim recollection that At
>Ease had some network-user features that Multiple Users may or may not
>have duplicated.
>
>Something to look at though.
>
>That Knowledge Base article does however describe the extension trashing
>behaviour :)
>
>Ry

Tom Lewis, in beautiful Jervis Bay, NSW, Oz