Quicksilver

I use Quicksilver for this. FREE!! ...

Student edition and installed it with no problem on a Quicksilver G4, an iBook G4 and a new MacBook. The first two were running 10.4.11 and the MacBook 10.5.2. This used up the three installs allowed. ...

Nope, those commands are machine-dependent, not operating system-dependent. My G4 Yikes! runs OS X and OS 9 just fine, but does not support holding either 'X' or 'option' at startup. The AGP-based G4 machines were the first to support selecting a boot volume at boot time via the option key. I believe they were the first to also support the 'X' and '9' keys for OS X and OS...

I have a Quicksilver 800 mHz G4. I would like to update my Creative Suite, esp. Flash. Can I use the latest version which, I'm sure, is made for Intel Macs on my G4? ...

could be replicated by other keyboard sequences, but Quicksilver makes it faster. ...

Hm. I don't think that QT plugins would affect DVDs' subtitles that badly. Rather, I *do* think it has to do with graphics card drivers. Do you have a different graphics card handy that you could try? The Quicksilver should support an AGP-card, which would probably be much better.

I bought from a friend of mine this Quicksilver with a Giga Designs 1. ...

I think that was one of the first to support "big drives". Do you have any PCI cards installed? An archive and install would be helpful to isolate the problem. If you have a spare hard drive, you could test a clean install on that.

Plugged in my Sony camera which has worked with the old G4 Quicksilver for the last 4 years. iPhoto didn't open, so I checked Image Capture, which says "No device connected"... Checked leads, restarted etc, still the same. ...

The iBOOK is running 10.3.11 so I don't know which animal that is, but from what I understand @ 700mhz, it's the highest I can go on that one. The version of Safari is the 1.3. When I attempted to upgrade to 1.3.1, after downloading, I get a message that says "this system will not allow this" or something similar after the installation program performed it's function to see...