jshanh,

Thanks for your reply. I had actually tried exactly what you tried several time with no avail. Unfortunately, I finally decided to send the card back and have been using my 8300GS @ 512 MB with full QE/CE.

In fact I am wondering if I should break down and spend some money on a Q6600 processor an intel Mobo and just go Vanilla. At least then I will be able to use apple updates directly without decrypting etc.

BTW: have you tried enabling 2Dquatzextreme and disabling Compositor? This will give yo noticeable graphics performance boost - I am using it and have been very happy with the results:

In Terminal:
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sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Quartz2DExtremeEnabled -boolean yes

Test by rebooting and checking System Profiler. If it does not autoload, change:
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-boolean yes

to

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-boolean true

And for BeamSync:

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sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver Compositor -dict deferredUpdates 0

Good Luck!