I need some help rather desperately from you good folk I am having some serious issues with my Macbook Pro which is really starting to annoy me, especially as I don't know Tiger or Leopard nearly as well as XP/Vista (where I can sort out the problem myself).
First of all, my problem stems back from Tiger in which my system preferences reset after I turn my Mac off. When I power on again, my dock is reset back to it's default settings (even after a Leopard upgrade today, this problem still persists). My mouse and trackpad settings reset etc.
Secondly, Firefox 3 now refuses to open.
Thirdly, in Safari I keep getting an error message in EVERY new page I navigate to saying that my keychain is corrupted or something to that effect.
Forth, my harddrive is saying that I have around 50gb free despite the fact that I know I have at least 30gb more after clearing out old documents and applications (I was sad enough to count as I deleted one thing after the other).
Lastly, now after upgrading I am getting a constant error message saying that the "installedb" file failed to open and all I can really do to get rid of the message is select "ignore".
ANY help would be appreciated as I am getting quite...anxious about the whole thing. A year running without issues and now all of this at once?
Also I am running 10.5.4 which has not corrected any of these problems.
I am currently abroad, so even though I can just do a fresh install which I am tempted to do right now despite the hour, I don't want to have to resort to that unless necessary. It also leaves me in a grey area as my Office 2008 was a single use installation and I do not know if I can afford to really lose the app by doing a complete wipe and reinstall.
My apologies if any of this seems vague (I will elaborate where necessary). It is just incredibly frustrating to have a myriad of issues all at once when I have not had a single running issue for the past year.
First of all, my problem stems back from Tiger in which my system preferences reset after I turn my Mac off. When I power on again, my dock is reset back to it's default settings (even after a Leopard upgrade today, this problem still persists). My mouse and trackpad settings reset etc.
Secondly, Firefox 3 now refuses to open.
Thirdly, in Safari I keep getting an error message in EVERY new page I navigate to saying that my keychain is corrupted or something to that effect.
Forth, my harddrive is saying that I have around 50gb free despite the fact that I know I have at least 30gb more after clearing out old documents and applications (I was sad enough to count as I deleted one thing after the other).
Lastly, now after upgrading I am getting a constant error message saying that the "installedb" file failed to open and all I can really do to get rid of the message is select "ignore".
ANY help would be appreciated as I am getting quite...anxious about the whole thing. A year running without issues and now all of this at once?
Also I am running 10.5.4 which has not corrected any of these problems.
I am currently abroad, so even though I can just do a fresh install which I am tempted to do right now despite the hour, I don't want to have to resort to that unless necessary. It also leaves me in a grey area as my Office 2008 was a single use installation and I do not know if I can afford to really lose the app by doing a complete wipe and reinstall.
My apologies if any of this seems vague (I will elaborate where necessary). It is just incredibly frustrating to have a myriad of issues all at once when I have not had a single running issue for the past year.
