Classic starting up

for some reason the other day my computer started opening 9.2 right after booting up on 10.4. I have the start up disk marked as 10.4. any idea how to get it to stop doing this?
thanks,
BF

Hi ****nmu, and a warm welcome to the forums!
It can be a problem finding where that Post New Topic link is... the problem is if there are any Catagories at the top of the page, then you must drill down to a single one...
None here...
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=177
But click n that first one, Installation & Setup...
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=752
You should see Post new Topic link that takes you here...
http://discussions.apple.com/post!default.jspa?forumID=752

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