techblog 

For some reason, I decided to upgrade my laptop to Leopard yesterday. Not sure why, as there isn’t anything that I simply must have. Everything went well after the upgrade, with only one thing broken: The login window. As soon as it received focus I got the dread spinning beachball of death. I found that there were some other folks getting the same issue. As mentioned there you need to do an Archive and Install to fix the problem. So I tried that with the ‘Preserve User and Network Settings”. Same thing. Finally I tried it without preserving any settings and I was in. So then I had to copy across all of my files and preferences from the archived copy of my system. Phew, not bad for a day’s work.

I think the problem is that I am a tweaker. I can’t help installing 3rd party apps to change this and that. But that’s because I’m a techie and we jealously guard our freedom to tinker. It looks like if I want a trouble free life I should learn to live with the defaults.