Guys, I hope I'm not crossing a line here, but I could use your input. My G4 400 with 700 plus megs of RAM is under-performing, in my opinion. I get loads of spinning beach balls, mostly after launching applications, but sometimes just while perusing around in the finder. I have a dedicated OSX partition, a User drive, a dedicated Swap drive, and a dedicated OS9 partiton (where I hardly ever go). I've also got a second drive where I save all my music and video work. I'm running the latest Panther product, 10.3.7. I'm thinking about a reformat this weekend and pitching the whole concept of partitioning. Without dragging this out into a lenthy off-topic discussion... any thoughts? Please reply off-list, if you don't mind. Thanks.