DiskWarrior

I tried to copy the DiskWarrior Mounted Disc Image to a blank CD but it only put an Alias on the CD. ...

Ok, so I finally get a copy of DW. I reboot into it blah blah blah, and I first do a graph which says like 34% is out of order or wahtever.. so I start rebuilding..and it gets to Step no. 5 (i think) where it says Locating Directory.. You can hear the computer running and stuff so I think everything is going fine, I leave it on for like 3 hours and it still isn't done. No, the...

Before you reinstall the system run Disk Utility and do a Repair Permissions on your startup disk. Also, if you can boot off another disk and run DiskWarrior all the better. You definitely don't want to install on a damaged disk. If you don't have DiskWarrior then you may not need to worry. ...

Thanks to all with the helpful hints. I'll try the fixes you guys offered. The Drag and Drop issue seemed to have been fixed by DiskWarrior, but the permission problem still exists. As far as I know my wife's account does not have any admin priviledges. All of those point to my account but she still has access. I'll try using the Inspector to change things.

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My Pismo has only got a 8Mb ATI Rage card and it definitely slows window drawing and font-smoothing down. However, the old beach-ball rarely comes up anymore, so it's not too bad. Pretty crappy at games-playing, though! Hope it helps; I say wait for the new one THEN decide if you want the old one (Remember the old one can still use OS 9! Got Norton/DiskWarrior? You'll need...

on DiskWarrior which is toted as the best. Well it looked like it worked cause all the permission issues seemed to be fixed but my problem still exists. ...

Well, that 128 MB of RAM may be an issue. Have you tried creating a new Administrative user, to see if you still get the hard drive churning? I had a Sawtooth that churned and churned with the original user I created. I created a new user and found the problem disappeared when that new user logged in. Eventually I traced the issue to bad prefs file(s), but I don't remember...

I also suspect a failing hard drive. Do you have Diskwarrior available? ...

Try using Disk Utility - Have it scan and make all the repairs. You need to get DiskWarrior (for OS X which is version 3.x) or Drive 10.