After a week with Leopard.

The good news for me is that is mostly stable. The bad news is that it has some unreproducible quirks on my machine. To share two with you:
1. At one point, the keyboard worked for application, but not in the Finder. This meant that I couldn't perform a search or invoke Finder menus using the keyboard. Very strange. A restart solved the problem.
2. At one point, TM and the Address Book decided to go to war. When I opened the address book and the invoked Time Machine, the dock would not disappear. This mean that I couldn't cancel out of TM because the Dock was in the way. I had to hide the dock in order to cancel out of TM. A restart solved the problem.
Looks like memory is getting a little kerfluffled in Leopard. I tend to keep a lot of programs open, so I'm not sure if it is Leopard or a misbehaving application.
On the bright side, even with some quirks, Spaces for me is fantastic. I can now keep all the apps open that I use during the day without having to play hide the application. Spaces was really done right. Congrats to Apple for that one.
Even with its quirks, Leopard is usable for me. It hasn't actually crashed, caused me a data loss, etc. I'm keeping my Tiger backup around just in case I need to revert, but overall, I'm pretty happy with Leopard. Sounds like some fixes are in the works which should make Leopard even more stable.

Hi abrody,
I checked the panic log. I was very concerned because I just put new memory in and thought that there was a real possibility of a bad memory chip. On further research, I tend to think not. Here is a dump of the log:
Thu Nov 8 14:06:39 2007
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x00B435A3): "OSMalloc_Tagrele(): refcnt 0\n"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1228/osfmk/kern/kalloc.c:613
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x421cfa38 : 0x12b0e1 (0x4555b4 0x421cfa6c 0x133238 0x0)
0x421cfa88 : 0xb435a3 (0x455f44 0x44 0xd54d100 0x1a136f)
0x421cfac8 : 0xb443cf (0xb957a00 0x57e5c00 0x421cfb08 0x5e34200)
0x421cfae8 : 0xb443e4 (0x2204084 0x67c9670 0x0 0x0)
0x421cfb08 : 0xb4349c (0x67c9670 0xffff 0x5e34204 0x0)
0x421cfb28 : 0xb3e220 (0x2203d7c 0x283 0xd51f648 0xf8)
0x421cfb48 : 0x3e810c (0x5e34200 0x52e078 0x1 0x1412a7)
0x421cfb68 : 0x3e8bff (0x5e34200 0x52e078 0x421cfb78 0x3e8179)
0x421cfb98 : 0x3e8aba (0xd621180 0x0 0x1 0x0)
0x421cfbb8 : 0x3e810c (0xd621180 0x0 0x1 0xd51f650)
0x421cfbd8 : 0x3e81d9 (0xd621180 0x0 0xd4ed604 0x3e8179)
0x421cfbf8 : 0x3ee95b (0xd621180 0x0 0x1 0x0)
0x421cfc18 : 0x3e810c (0xd4ed600 0x0 0x1 0x3e810c)
0x421cfc38 : 0x3e81d9 (0xd4ed600 0x0 0xd6204e4 0x7a776a0)
0x421cfc58 : 0x3e9e35 (0xd4ed600 0x5efa790 0x421cfc98 0x7a776a0)
0x421cfc78 : 0x3e810c (0xd6204e0 0x0 0x1 0x1e)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
at.obdev.nke.LittleSnitch(2.0.21)@0xb3c000->0xb5cfff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: hueyAmbient
Mac OS version:
9A581
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: iMac6,1 (Mac-F4218FC8)
The thing is, HueyAmbient has been misbehaving as it has not been updated for Leopard. (It's a monitor calibration software/hardware combo from Pantone.) Since I've taken it out of Login Items, the system has been rock solid.
One other issue does concern me though. I followed the Cntrl-D startup instructions to do a hardware test and my machine never booted. It gets to the gray Apple screen and stays there. I am using the original Install disc supplied with the machine. Any thoughts?

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