How to do a re-install of Mac OS 10.5 LEOPARD??

Saturday (28 Feb 2009) I had a smooth install of Leopard over 10.4.11 TIGER. I'd been practising for 10 months on other Macs!
BUT BUT-- then within 24 hours I have a frozen / inactive menu bar-- either the menu doesn't switch when I switch programs; or the program sitting 3-15+ minutes suddenly has a frozen Menu Bar when I return to my Mac...
So I'm wondering if I re-install but this time do an install/archive?? How to do that, use customize in the set-up via the installation DVD?
I have at least 15 shareware and other programs that I'll then have to reinstall myself one-by-one; but if this solves the FROZEN MENU BAR problem, fine.
Any guidance / assistance on how best to do this to give me the best chance of a clean install. I really don't want to wipe the HD clean since then when I bring my files back via FireWire, I'm sure some system/other files will come back as well. So I hope install-archive is the best.
Comments welcome!
Steve
2 March 2009

Stephen Schulte2 wrote:
I am wondering if there are documented cases of people having menu bars freeze / become inactive in Leopard. I mean many people must have shareware and such like I do-- and Leopard has been out since about Oct 2007 or so-- one would think this would have been seen and solved by now.
Any add-on software that enhances the user interface or materially changes application behavior should be researched carefully to see if it relies on what is commonly known as a "haxie" -- basically, any software that inserts itself into the OS via an undocumented or prohibited entry point ("API") or uses a provided API in a way it was not designed to support. This is not easy to do, in part because a number of developers insist that their software does not do this when it clearly does, often by installing a haxie in addition to their own product. (I suppose this is the basis for the "it's not a haxie" claim, since the product itself isn't one.)
You cannot rely on a product's popularity or rating for this -- in fact, some of the most popular add-ons rely on haxies to work.
You should do this because in effect, an OS running any of these add-ons is no longer the OS Apple provides or supports but instead a hybrid (some would say an adulteration) that is supported in part by the maker of the add-on(s). This obviously complicates getting effective support, especially when more than one is present. It also can lead to problems with stability that are hard to diagnose & even security issues.
If you feel you must include these things in your system, it is very important that you make sure you use the latest version -- one indicator of this kind of software is a very large number of updates, since any change Apple makes to its provided OS is very likely to require a change to it as well. (Often, the update to the add-on is accompanied by a note from its author that it patches around a 'severe' but usually only vaguely specified bug in Apple's OS.) If in doubt, completely disable or uninstall the add-ons before you apply an OS update, since their presence can sometimes interfere with the OS updating itself -- after all, it isn't the OS Apple provides anymore so it should be no surprise that it may not behave as expected during this most delicate of processes.
It also should be no surprise that all the problems these things can cause have not been "solved" by now -- every time the OS is updated the process starts all over again.

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