As with almost everything, the truth of the matter lies somewhere in the middle (as opposed those at the extreme polar opposites of opinion, who more often than not get it wrong by virtue of their own intolerant thought). Will repairing permissions magically resolve every outstanding issue you might have with OS X or an application? No, it won't, and if it doesn't do the trick there are plenty of other things to look at. Is repairing permissions a total waste of time? Absolutely not, doing so has resolved plenty of user issues -- but even if it doesn't fix the problem it's still a good first step to try, one that takes little time and doesn't involve much effort on the part of the user, so why not? In the end, those who think either of the above are true do not understand what repairing permissions does, and what it doesn't. (Including the fine folks at Unsanity -- I'm a big fan of their products, but they should take more responsibility in posting what is clearly a biased, one-sided opinion piece masquerading as a technical article.) Brian :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Logic Audio Pro 7.1 PowerMac G4 933MHz OS X 10.4.1 1 GB RAM MOTU 828mkII - driver v1.2.5 - CueMix v1.5 - firmware 1.0.1 - bootloader 1.0.1