I bought my iBook new about a year ago. I have tried using the OS X after spending my time using 9.2 and have had nothing but problems with it even after reloading the OS X from commercial discs--or trying to--several times. I was wondering if anyone would know what the following problems might be attributed to: 1. My system will not actually shut off the computer whether I use forced shut off or simple shut off or restart. Even if I have an OS X or 9.1 or 9.2 commercial disc in the disc bay, it will not restart with the disc while pressing "c". All the icons and menus go off but the screen stays blue and when I shut it the little light on the front of my iBook keeps blinking 2. I can not change the start-up disc back to 9.1 3. When I put CDs and DVDs in the disc bay, the disc icon does not show up on my desk top and the DVD player will not play any DVDs. If I put a OS X disc in to retart and reload it, it will not recognise the disc so an upgrade to 10.2 willnot work either. I have had no luck using the 9.2 upgrade CD. It simply will not update from the CD. Any help would be appreciated, Thom Simmons malang@gol.com

I'm hoping "about a year ago" means "less than a year ago" because it sounds like your iBook has a hardware problem. Is the firmware up-to-date? p