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Does anyone know how or if there is way to go back to 10.4.7 now that I'm running 10.4.8?
My G5 use to crash at startup about 30-40% of the time right out of the box. Yes I have one the (Late 2004) 1.8GHz G5's. These problems continued until Apple finally released the firmware update. This fixed everything. I recently upgraded to OS 10.4.8 (from 10.4.7) and now all my original problems are back. Crashes at startup just as you described (does this about 30% of the time) plus I have a host of new problems. iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, no longer open no matter what I do. Absolutely no response, the icon in the dock bounces once then nothing happens. When I attempt to check for software updates, again nothing happens. My internet browsing is suddenly worse(browser gets hung up on the same weather pages I have always visited). I also noticed that the energy saver panel in my preferences is completely blank (no words, no options, blank page). If there's any way to go back to 10.4.7 I would definitely like to try it, but I don't know where to begin.
If anyone else is experiencing similar problems please post a reply (in detail)so we can try to establish some commonality in the problems.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Get yourself a copy of Tiger and the latest iLife. The Tiger upgrade over Panther disks are not as good.
Backup all your data, music, User/Library/Mail and Safari folders.
Write down all your network settings, passwords and vital data to speed the rebuild.
Hold c and boot off the new Tiger disk and select Disk Utility from the menu. Select Erase with Zero option your boot drive. This will take some time.
When finished Quit and install Tiger, setup (avoid migration assistant) and immediatly Software Update until clear. Repair permissions.
Get yourself a external hard drive and a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner. Disk Utlity Erase w/Zero option the new external. Enable "make bootable" in CCC prefs and clone your fresh new boot drive to the external. Hold option to boot from it to check it out. Reboot from internal boot and disconnect.
Continue to setup the new internal boot with app installs from original sources. If you need performance, keep your non-secure user files on another internal drive, keeping the boot drive less than 50% filled.
Clone the new stable boot drive to the external occassionally, always repair permissions before and after a clone. Always Zero any new drive one time or in the case of a security issue for more reliability.
Check your drive makers sites for hard drive driver updates for Tiger.

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