Hi folks,

Well I got my powerbook back today. In fact I had to go into the Apple repair centre to demonstrate the problem to the repairman! He was the size of brick s**thouse with fingers the size of sausages so couldn't feel anything. So another guy comes over and agrees with what I'm saying (velvet feel). The next thing we do is examine the power supply and here's the problem: If you use the short plug adapter, it is not grounded as stated earlier by Las Vegas. In fact, if you look inside the plug attachment, there is no metal on the inside of it. Now look at the inside of the corded plug. This one (in Australia anyway) has the ground pin on it and the metal inside the groove (for ground). As soon as I plugged in the grounded cable, the problem was gone. So the question is, why did Apple not ground the mini/travel plug for the power supply? A major oversight if you ask me. The Apple guy said to plug in a mouse if using the travel adapter...apparently it will ground it but haven't tried.

Scott