Originally Posted By: MacManiac
Just looking at this as a third party, I would ask one more question.....

How many accounts are there on this installation of Snow Leopard? It sounds very much to me like jaybass is is logged into a STANDARD ACCOUNT without administrator privileges.


Already asked,
Originally Posted By: joemikeb
When you say, "I could not do anything without being asked for the admin name" were you logged on in the admin account at the time or to another non-admin account?

but not answered

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