well, bad news for me guys. i just tried stressing my system by opening all of the apps i have at once. at the same time, i was browsing with firefox (checking my email) when it suddenly crashed. i also noticed that the last app i clicked on to open (which was illustrator) didn't open. so i went to restart firefox, and i got this message: "The application "Firefox" cannot be launched. -10810" i've actually had this error before on random occasions. whenever it happens, it does this for all of my apps. so, for example, i tried to open illustrator again, and it gave me the same error. i then closed all of my apps and tried to open them again, and it gave me the same error for every single one. i tried to open a new finder window to test browsing some folders, but it crashed finder all together and all i could see was my dock. at this point i had to log out and log back in (using keyboard shortcuts, since i no longer had a menu bar). well, that sucked. and worse, now i have to start over my long-term stability test for these memory settings since i basically had to re-initiate a new leopard session by logging out/in. at this point, i am fantasizing about going back to tiger. it's not a good feeling. baaarrrgggghhh!! where's the damn catnip now!??!