[hot_pastrami]

You may want to play with the anti-aliasing options. They're in System Preferences, I think under the Displays preference pane. I'm not with a Mac right now, so I can't check, but they have like four settings there that you might wanna try out.

Cool, thanks for the tip. I poked around the preferences a bit just looking around, but I didn't spot this one.

You'll probably notice a nice boost when you get a better graphics card, too. GF2MX is okay, but with a GF3 or higher, it will be wicked fast.

This machine actually has a GeForce4 MX card. The display is very smooth, I've been impressed with it.

These are to die for. I wish Windows had something like this, because it's so stupidly useful it's not even funny. I'm super used to it now, and I feel crippled on Windows because I can't do it.

Don't worry, Microsoft will eventually catch on, steal the idea, then brand it with their own name and take credit... "New Windows PP with pop-open folders"

You can turn this off. It's on the main iChat window, one of the buttons on the bottom pops up some prefs.

Excellent, I'll have to find that. I like cool-looking stuff, but that balloon text was too cute for my taste.

You can also install X11 and use GAIM, which I find to be the best AIM client on any platform.

I wasn't familiar with X11 until I did a search prompted by your mention of it... I'll have to dive into that one of these days soon so I can make more apps available.

Thanks for the suggestions and stuff, once again your advice has proven extremely useful. I owe you, dave.