Stickies

People actually use stickies? I never would have guessed.;)

perhaps on the reboot after installing, the stickies program didn't quit properly, and couldn't save the data? ...

My (3) stickies appear to be fine. No major problems so far.. If anything it made Sherlock faster but that's about all I can notice.

ct the developer and not apple. it didn't say what the thing was. but everything appears to still be there and to still work like it always has. sorry about your stickies MacD. ...

I have been working with clients the past two weeks and have stickies galore that I need to restore. ...

This is just a guess, but you could try deleting the OS 9 version of Stickies, so your services thingy would be forced to use the OS X version instead.

I love the make sticky note service, but always have a problem with it. Unless I launch the stickies program in OSX before I use the service, whenever I try to use it the computer uses the stickies program in OS9... ...

Then of course there's the Stickies easter egg where you typed something like "Camel!" in a sticky and if you waited for a few seconds, a picture of a camel would pop up. ...

I agree, you should try to minimize the things that open at startup, especially since there are a lot of things that put things in the Login items without your knowledge (FruitMenu, WindowShade X, etc.). But what is this "classic" you speak of? :D

I cut down startup time by having the minimum of apps open at startup. There is still a delay as the demon of caca mentioned but just removing stickies and two or three other apps I had set to load at startup sped things up noticeably. I can only imagine if you have classic set to run. ...