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First, I have to say thanks to Alexander Traud for developing Card Blues Suite, and supplying it free of charge. Over the past year, with 10.3.9, it has worked perfectly for me, and enabled me to sync my smartphone with my Mac, using a PCMCIA card from 3com.
However, I have just updated to Mac OSX 10.4.2, and now I have a problem: The computer works fine until I install the latest version of Card Blues Suite, and then half the Menu Bar disappears and the Spotlight icon on the right of the bar flashes slowly. I can hear activity within the computer, like it's constantly trying to launch something. The functions of the computer almost seize up at this point. When I delete the two Card Blues Suite extensions from System - Library - Extensions and restart, the problem goes away, but I'm left without Bluetooth. If I reinstall it, the same problem recurs.
Just for information, I did a completely clean install of Tiger on an erased hard drive, so the previous versions of Card Blues and OSX were not present on the hard drive. I am up-to-date with Apple software, including the recent Security, Java, Quicktime and iPod updates.

Thanks again - really good, fast support. The problem turned out to be a faulty installation of Tiger. A clean install sorted things out.

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