I am new to MAC and one of my friends was downloading the update for her powerbook. During the update she was doing some other things with the computer and it locked up. She ended up doing a hard shutdown of the computer. When she turned the computer back on it hangs at initalizing sign in. She was the only account on the computer and she didn't have it set to where she would have to use her userid and password to login. I am thinking that her personal directory somehow got corrupted. I was thinking that the best course of action would be use the system restore disk, but before I went diving into this project I wanted to make sure that there weren't any other avenues to explore. thanks for your help in advance