Have a look in the console (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app) for any other 
messages being reported while doing this. Maybe you will be able to trace the 
cause of this.

Alex
On 23 Jul 2010, at 12:42, James / Hans Kunz wrote:

> i encountered a weird problem
> when i go to system pref / network it opens the window but comes up with the 
> message "the settings have been change by another application", i cannot get 
> rid of that message thus i cannot change/add a connection, the existing 
> connections work
> powerbook g4 osx.4.11 2gig ram 320gig hd
> 
> cheers James
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