On Thursday, Jul 15, 2004, at 12:05 Australia/Sydney, der Mouse wrote:

> Now, it also loses the time when I power down, from which I infer that
> some internal battery is dead or some such.  But how could that affect
> Control Panel settings?  They're saved on disk, no?  Certainly the date
> and time format settings are saved across power-downs; I tried it.

I believe that setting is also in battery backed RAM... as is keyboard
repeat rate, mouse speed, AppleTalk settings, cursor blink rate, and
a few other bits and pieces, from memory.

Cheers,
--
stix