Jason,

PowerPage Podcast Episode 64 may be your best work yet.

The problems with Leopard are minimal, but you seem to be having the same issues as many others. Quicksilver has been an issue for me with Leopard and I have decided to stay clear as problems seem to follow it. Web browsing can be very frustrating when certain sites using Flash are attempted to be visited. An example is: http://www.justin.tv/ijustine.

For some reason this site is down more than it's up working and for some reason it really taxes the processor as the CPU Temperature rises and on many occasions Safari will quit.

Using Back to My Mac has been very successful for me since the 10.5.1 update. What I had found is that many routers are not set up out of the box to handle Back to My Mac. The newer Apple Airport Extreme Draft N routers are by default set up to handle Back to My Mac. I have been able to access my home iMac with no issues from any outside networks I have been able to get access too.

The one issue that I have talked to two Apple Genius' about is the Preference Syncing Issue and the Dashboard Syncing Issue. Both were unaware of any issues. But, I have had Dashboard Widget's appear 3 times after a sync and preferences just getting confused that I have turned off both in my DotMac settings.

One final issue that occurred this week was with Time Machine on my iMac. I did a clean install of 10.5.1 on the iMac on Nov. 14 and started up Time Machine. It had worked perfectly until this past Wednesday Dec. 5. I got a message that the last time, Time Machine ran it Failed. I did some deleting of the damaged files and Time Machine did manage to start working again until the next day and the problem returned. I tried to start from scratch again and did a reformat of the the Firewire Drive. It appears the drive became damaged and I returned it today and got a new drive. Not sure if the problem is Time Machine related or just coincidence that that drive failed. The drive was a 320 gig My Book (Firewire 400 and USB). I got a Maxtor 1 Terabyte as a replacement. Both of these drives appear to be slow in data transfers to them compared to other Firewire drives I have.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays,
Joseph J Gudac Jr.

(Thanks for the kind words Joe, Happy Holidays right back at ya! - Jason)