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Ok, that indicates that your authorization stuff is working. VPC must be using an obsolete authorization method I guess.

Since I did a drag and drop install from my jaguar partition and it still works for me, I know that there should be nothing installed in /System etc. to cause problems.

Therefore I searched the application itself, and it is all owned by me, except for this file:

Code:

$ ll /Applications/Virtual\ PC\ 5.0/Virtual\ PC/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPC_Services 

-rwsr-xr-x    1 root     wheel       27248 Jun 17  2002 \

/Applications/Virtual PC 5.0/Virtual PC/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPC_Services*

(edit: above broken to two lines for readability) which is setuid root. So, what I suggest, is to try to do this:

Code:

$ sudo chown root:wheel /Applications/Virtual\ PC\ 5.0/Virtual\ PC/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPC_Services

$ sudo chmod 4755 /Applications/Virtual\ PC\ 5.0/Virtual\ PC/Contents/MacOS/VirtualPC_Services

And see if it works after that.

Allrighty. We have gotten past the permissions issue! - the program has accepted my password, asked for and got the serial number of the product, gone through the setup, and is now idling on the "windows is now opening" screen. The next screen should be my windows desktop, but seeing as how it has been 12 hours on the "now opening' screen, my euphoria is somewhat flagging.

Thanks for all the help thus far. Any ideas on this final hurdle?

Dave