Well, I spent most of my computing weekend trying to get my PowerBook G4 updated to leopard. My first attempt was to just do a straight update. I did this because I felt a bit lazy. Well that seemed to work, initially, but I could not do safe boot (and as you may remember, safe boot is the only way my mac works these days). This took two to three hours start to finish.

My second attempt was to do an archive an install. A lot of message boards kept saying that people had the same problems as I did (on well functioning computers), and an archive and install solved their problems. This process took a couple of hours start to finish and still did not solve my problem! I still could not boot in safe boot mode.

I then ended up putting my mac aside while I contemplated my next move...

Finally I decided to go back to Tiger. I reinstalled it in an hour or so, and restored my data from my .Mac backups. With the exception of having to register some apps, nothing was lost in the botched upgrade process. I guess I won't be using rapidweaver 4 anytime soon...