[snip mosaic problems]

> went to move the mouse and that didn't work.  I tried everything and the
> only way to get out of this was to do a force restart ctrl-cmd-power key.
> If anyone has any ideas on how to make this work please let me know.  Also
> is there any particular way I should reboot unix the next boot?  I was
> thinking it might be a good idea to boot in single user mode and run fsck.
> Is this necessary or should it be ok?

Other folks can help figure out if this behavior is "normal." I can
STRONGLY suggest that you do reboot into single user and fsck manually.
Do so ANY time you have to force a reboot.

One time I didn't. I've forgotten when. I only noticed that I'd forgotten
when I started seeing corrupted and disapearing files.

fsck'ing is like running Norton on a hard disk. When in doubt, it's
usually a good idea (unless things are soooooo fried you should just use
the installer and cpout to pull off a few files and then reformat).

Take care,

Bill