More frustration with Conditions in FM 9.0

When going back to visit a document where changes have been tracked with conditions, I spot a stray bullet. Aha! I conclude; carelessly-applied condition. Quite right: if I select the paragraph and try to delete it, I'm warned I'm about to delete hidden conditional text.
"And what might that be?" I wonder, so make the selection unconditional in order to see the content ... well, that's my way of seeing it. FM assures me the selection is unconditional, displays (I imagine) the previously-applied condition at the top of the conditions list, and refuses to reveal the text.
Can someone enlighten me on how I need to think in order to display this text? I can solve the immediate problem easily enough by going to mif, or by copy-pasting into a new document with no conditions defined, but feel this sort of workaround should not be necessary.

Niels,
Still don't understand why making something unconditional doesn't
immediately display it, when the show/hide setting is an aspect of
"conditionalness", but if that's the way it is I'd better get used to
it <vbg>
You are correct....in a sense. When you SHOW conditional text, you can select it and make it unconditional. And it indeed DOES show; however, it was showing in the first place. So, in this sense, you are correct.
If you conditionalize a piece of text and HIDE it, then the only thing displayed in Frame is a marker showing that there is hidden text. Is the marker conditionalized or not? I tested it, and the marker itself is UNconditionalized text. If you select it along with text before and after it, the conditional text pod shows the whole selection as unconditionalized. You can even apply the unconditional tag, and nothing changes. Now SHOW all conditional text and you will see that the previously hidden conditional text remains conditional.
So, the point is that the marker that indicates hidden conditionalized text is itself unconditionalized. The way to display hidden conditionalized text is to display it, not try to unconditionalize its marker.
Hope this helps,
Van

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I have never been more frustrated with a website than this one.

This website is utterly the worst labrynth of crap I have ever ever in my entire history of working with the internet have experienced. Who designed this site? a monkey? THE WORST! THE WORST! THE WORST! man, I am so angry and frustrated. This is unbelievable.
Lets make a list shall we:
First apparently I am available for an upgrade. So I click on upgrade my phone which I guess is what I am to do. I don't see why I can't just see a list of phones with the corresponding discounts etc. Nope instead I get a pre menu with a picture of my phone and a icon to press upgrade your phone. Wouldn't the designers think that maybe some people might get a little confused. There is a picture of my phone and it says upgrade your phone. Why not be clear? "This is the phone you have" then put "click here to see what upgrades are available to you." I know Im not the smartest guy in the planet but geez the webdesigners were perhaps too familiar with their own site and didn't put it together for the laymen.
So then I go to the site and guess what? There are no discounts shown, there are no upgrades readily availble for me to see. Instead is a list of phones for full price. Is that the upgrade I am availble for? A phone for full price? This is absurd.
You would think that a multi-billion dollar corporation that has made its money on being the leader of wireless technology WOULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO A WEBSITE THAT A USER COULD USE!
Oh and then wanting to email someone about my experience. Nope cant just contact through email. You have to put a preselected question for your email that just takes you right back to the FAQs. Wow! that is convenient!!!. To actually contact someone you have to put your stupid complaint on a forum but in order to do that you have to go through the complete hassel of logging in AGAIN, then I need to put some stupid code in from my email. Do you guys just make it difficult so that people will just give up and not complain? That doesn't seem like good customer service to me. Sticking your fingers in your ears screaming lalalalala via making it too complicated and time consuming so that customers don't have a voice is no way to help customers.
And then trying to add a comment on the "suggestions thread" there are no options to post a comment on that one. You guys sure seem like you know what your doing. Maybe you can hire my mother who can barely send an email to design your site, she might do a better job.
So I guess my suggestion is to fire the webdesigner and put together a more cohesive, effecient website please.

Im on firefox. Another poster told me how to email - it wasn't straight forward for me - which in my opinion should be. This site is organized really badly, in my opinion. Like I stated before this is Verizon wireless - this site should be hands down one of the best out there - instead its clunky and redundant. I want a ferrari and they are giving me a 1982 rusted out pontiac - yeah it works but not that well.
As for the upgrades and pricing - shouldn't that be something that is on the site. I am available for an upgrade and if I want to order a phone I should be able to see how much its going to cost me. And if Im not mistaken they used to do that. To me, just doesn't make any sense to not include the pricing. Doesn't that seem ineffecient? "your available for an upgrade - check our site for your upgrades - oh we don't have the prices that it will cost you - you have to call in.
And what doe "new for every 2" actually mean? They don't really explain that. Do I get a brand new phone of my choosing for free? Catchy slogans don't necessarily inform the customers and thats whats a little disappointing to me.
Sorry for my blather.

A bit more help with conditions

I am working on some animated rollover buttons (movieclips) that require two conditions:
1. Once the button is rolled over, clicking will switch between a word symbol and it's definition
2. Due to the above, I also need two rollOut states as well.
I made a run at both, with the results posted here: www.midnyc.com
There are definitely some bugs, I am just not sure where to go from here. I see that if you mouse over and interact, then get off, when you go back onto the button, it is still in the same pattern (has not reset) and that needs to happen.
Also, on the first click, nothing happens... a second click is required to get the switch to happen. Below is my code thus far:
btn_disHit.buttonMode = true
btn_disCase.buttonMode = true
btn_disCase.buttonState = "on";
btn_disHit.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, disToggleClick);
btn_disHit.addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_OUT, disToggleOut);
btn_disHit.addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, disOver);
function disOver (e:MouseEvent):void{
    btn_disCase.gotoAndPlay ("disOver");
function disToggleClick (e:MouseEvent){
    if (!e.currentTarget.toggle){
        btn_disCase.gotoAndPlay ("disClick")
    else {
        btn_disCase.gotoAndPlay ("disClickB")
e.currentTarget.toggle = !e.currentTarget.toggle;
function disToggleOut (e:MouseEvent){
    if (!e.currentTarget.toggle){
        btn_disCase.gotoAndPlay ("disOutB")
    else {
        btn_disCase.gotoAndPlay ("disOut")
e.currentTarget.toggle = !e.currentTarget.toggle;

I do see that I need to set an if (on this frame, go to this frame) type of condition, rather than the current target, I guess I am just not sure how to code a conditional to recognize which frame it is in to go to the other, rather than using current target?

I don't think I've ever been more frustrated with technology

Yea, I grew up in a Mac household so I was always pretty affectionate towards apple. I am denouncing that because of the iPod. This thing is starting to become more of a hassle than it's worth.
The major problem with it now: iTunes won't recognize it all of a sudden. The iPod has had stupid problems for the past, oh say, 7 months with playing songs smoothly and loading tracks quickly. All I was trying to do this morning was to add a playlist to it. My computer sees it, but doesn't behave normally (which would be to ask what i want to do with it) when I plug it in. When it's not plugged into my computer it occasionally starts normally, but other times it shows the apple logo and then tells me to go to the support website. Wow gee, that's helpful don't you think? Could someone help me where apple has failed (time and time again)?
iPod with Click Wheel Windows XP

The issue could be software or hardware related. What you should try first is running a restore while the ipod is in disk mode. If you do not have the latest ipod updater on your computer, you can download from this link:
http://www.apple.com/ipod/download/
To put the ipod into disk mode, connect it to your ac adapter. Once its connected hold down the menu and select button at the same time until the apple logo appears. Once the apple logo appears, release and hold down the select and play/pause button at the same time. What you should see next is 'ok to disconnect' with a check mark on the display screen and disk mode at the top. Once the ipod is in disk mode connect it to your computer (using the back usb ports) and open the ipod updater and run the restore

New ipod more frustration trouble with downloading itunes setup

I have had this ipod 3 days now and before I pitch it, give it away or post on ebay, I need help. I am getting more and more frustrated.
For some reason I cannot get the itunes software to download to my laptop, the one I am using to type this message. I'm using Windows XP pro. AOL internet connection through broadband with AT & T. Everytime I go to the download site, I click on the proper one and click the down load button. Not matter if it set it to run or to save, the setup does not download to my computer. I have tried as I said both run and saving to a folder and then opening the folder and tring to click on it to set up and nothing happens. I have checked my control pannel and then gone to add or remove software and in the entire listing there is no itunes showing. When I do a computer search for itunes it only finds the itunes in the ipod folder I set up on the desk top to download it into and save. I just won't download and install. I have tried to click on the setup in the folder I created on the desk top but it just does not install. Can anyone tell me what the problem might be??? Is there a CD that I can download the set up needed to use this ipod???
I have done everything I can think of, I have done a disk cleanup to get rid of temp internet files, junk and run my spyware program. My computer has no viruses. After doing these, I still can't download the setup itunes software.
I do have have another laptop available, and I can try that one, but before I try downloading the itunes setup on my other computer, can someone tell me why I can't download the setup to this computer????
I am frustrated, can someone help !!!
Karen
Michigan

I solved the problem, it seems that Quicktime was not properly installed on my computer. Even thought it showed when I looked in the control panel under add and remove software, it was there, but it was not working. I went to the quicktime tab at www.apple.com and downloaded quicktime again. This time I got a blue Q in my lower righ hand corner of my screen, so when I click on it the quicktime screen comes up and is working. I then downloaded the itunes 7.0.2 and it downloaded and set up fine, now I am just waiting for all my music on my computer to conver to itunes.

The newest version of iTunes is awful when it comes to Cloud syncing-file management. I'm constantly frustrated with what iTunes 'chooses to eliminate from my mobile device and settings aren't fine-grained enough to allow for real user control.

I'm endlessly frustrated with iTunes Cloud syncing, something that was supposed to make lenjoying my music easier. I routinely find that, though itunes and podcasts have been split, iTunes arbitrairily removes music files or in progress podcast in favor of 'new' podcasts. The settings are just not fine-grained enough to allow true user control and so we are instead subjected to 'Apple knows best' protocols. I understand and appreciate the level of exacting control Apple excercises over their ecosystem, however, more and more often I see them tightening control over things that should be user control while dropping the ball on aesthetic desisions made in producing their own software (see the hideous pull down tab for iTunes to access Podcast, TV shows, Music, etc.
I would like to see features like those in Mail and the Podcasting apps implemented in iTunes afor the management of content on mobile devices, for instance it would be great to swipe to delete files that you know longer want on your device, at both the album and song level. Another issues is the new pushiness of iRadio and iTunes Store, the app now seems to default to the iRadio page (versus the last page Albums, songs, etc. that the user was navigating, or in the instance of the iTunes Store push, if I doon't have all the tracks of an album i own on my mobile device 'complete my album' takes you to iTunes store rather than showing the 'cloud' download icon next to missing tracks. These are the tactics I expect from Google, not Apple (pushing commerce over quality user experience).
Fix these things Apple, please.

More Problems with iTunes 7,0

I, like many other people it seems, have been having problems with my iTunes ever since I downloaded the latest upgrade for it.
I downloaded iTunes 7.0 on September 16th late at night. After downloading the upgrade I turned my laptop off and thought nothing of it. As I shut down my laptop however, I noticed that I recieved an error message. Ignoring it for the moment, I let my laptop shut off.
When I turned my laptop on the next morning, I noticed that nothing was working. I recieved 3 more error messages, my iTunes would not open at all, my music would [obviously] not play, and for some reason it ended up turning the "Mute" function on on my laptop sound system. After turning that off iTunes still wouldn't open.
Now, following the advice of someone in this forum, I attempted to downgrade my version of iTunes back to 6.0 [or around there] Now at least my iTunes will open, but nothing will play. When I attempt to play a song the information will show up, but it simply will not play.
I'm beginning to get really frustrated with this entire situation. A simple upgrade to my iTunes should not compromise my ability to listen to my music, and even the ability of my laptop to function properly.
Any help or advice that could be given would be greatly appreciated.
Dell Inspiron 6400 Windows XP
Dell Inspiron 6400 Windows XP
Dell Inspiron 6400 Windows XP

i downloaded the update and now my itunes wont even open.
a few questions before proceeding.
are you getting an error message? if so, what does it say? include error message numbers if you're getting any.
or are you getting no error messages whatsoever when you try to launch itunes?
if you're getting no error messages whatsoever, do you just see the wee hourglass for a few seconds, and then nothing? if so, do you also have Norton Internet Security 2005 installed on that PC?
or are you seeing a brief "flash" of the itunes license screen (and then nothing)? if so, do you also see similar behavior when you try to launch your QuickTime?

Issue with conditional breaks

Hi Experts,
I am working on conditoinal breaks in adobe.
My requirement is: For a delivery item if i have 3 batched i have to print 3 forms with item data. Here the data of one batch can flow into multiple pages I had applied a conditional break on batch field at the item level of the table(designed with dragging the table into the layout.). this form contains Batch at header and footer. When the data fits in one page conditional breaks are working fine and i am getting 3 forms in the same spool as desired. But when there is more item data conditional breaks are not working properly.
Issue like item data over flow on the footer and batches are not showing up properly according to the page breaks.
Please help on this issue.
Thanks,
Anil

Guys, Tell me if my question was not clear or need further information.

Get records number from internal table with condition.

Internal table itab got more than 1000 records,now i need to get the number of records with condition that itab-field1 = 'XXXX'.
actully, i got an inefficient logic to count the number in a loop statement. is there better way to implement it?

hello,
Every time assigning data into temp table and delete may that may not be much efficient. You can check in loop logic how much time is taken. You can check the below code. here I am trying to check the numbers of plant for for one material.
In this logic material is the first field. So if there is option to make the required field in to the 1 st position then it will be nice.
TYPES: BEGIN OF x_count,
        matnr TYPE matnr,
        count TYPE i,
       BEGIN OF x_count.
DATA: i_marc TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF marc,
      i_count TYPE STANDARD TABLE OF x_count,
      wa_count TYPE x_count.
FIELD-SYMBOLS: <wa_marc> TYPE marc.
SELECT * UP TO 1000 ROWS
FROM marc
INTO TABLE i_marc.
IF sy-subrc = 0.
SORT i_marc BY matnr.
LOOP AT i_marc ASSIGNING <wa_marc>.
    wa_count-count = wa_count-count + 1.
    AT END OF matnr.
      wa_count-matnr = <wa_marc>-matnr.
      APPEND wa_count TO i_count.
    ENDAT.
ENDLOOP.
ENDIF.
Thanks
Subhanakr

Frustrated with Shuffle

My son got an iPod Shuffle today for his birthday and a iTunes gift card. The Shuffle worked great at first. He immediately downloaded about 11 songs and everything was working fine. Then he decided to look for a few more songs and now we can't seem to get anything to work right. We charged the Shuffle for about 3 hours. His original playlist is still on the Shuffle but the new songs are not loading. I have restored teh software and tried re-downloading the playlist but with the same problem. What is more frustrating is now we can't seem to get the Shuffle to work properly either. We turn it on, the green light stays on for about 3 seconds and that is all. Hit play and nothing happens. Sometimes it will work in "Shuffle" mode, but not regular mode. The battery indicator light is green. It also will not loop the playlist and just ends with a slight "click" at the end of his playlsit (still no new songs).

Suggest going to the iPod Shuffle Support Page and starting right out with the "Five R's". Note that those are the common starting points for troubleshooting; they won't automatically fix each and every problem.
From your description of intermittent operation and perhaps some problem in the power switch besides, it may eventually be a candidate for replacement. You should work through the parts of the troubleshooting that you in fact can do, if for no other reason than to confirm that the fault is in the Shuffle and not something that you can correct.

Frustrated with layers

I know this is so simple but I can't get it to work. what I want is to have a plain background color with either a picture over that is faint or a pattern that is lighter these are not the focal points then i want to add a few photos but would like to feather or rough up the edges so they don;t ;look like i just dropped them in and maybe a some other graphic like an animal or flames etc. and some text. please any help would be great. thank you in advance. Susan

Since you mention being frustrated with layers, I assume you are having problems getting several images into the same document.
Start by reading through this tutorial which shows how to open and get more than one image into a document.
http://www.alibony.com/pse/070308copy.html
You might also find some useful info on this page...top part anyway.
http://www.alibony.com/pse/022108collage.html
jazzyroses13 wrote:
I know this is so simple but I can't get it to work. what I want is to have a plain background color with either a picture over that is faint or a pattern that is lighter these are not the focal points
Use opacity in the layer's palette to reduce this image or pattern's transparency.
jazzyroses13 wrote:
add a few photos but would like to feather or rough up the edges so they don;t ;look like i just dropped them in
One way would be to use this layer in a clipping mask...also known as a clipping group. See this tutorial on clipping masks/groups that includes several ways types of bases.
http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/learn/Photoshop_Elements/layers/layer_groups_clippi ng_masks/1_layer_groups_clipping_masks.htm
jazzyroses13 wrote:
I know this is so simple but I can't get it to work. what I want is to have a plain background color with either a picture over that is faint or a pattern that is lighter these are not the focal points then i want to add a few photos but would like to feather or rough up the edges so they don;t ;look like i just dropped them in and maybe a some other graphic like an animal or flames etc. and some text. please any help would be great. thank you in advance. Susan
Personally, I prefer using a solid color fill adjustment layer as the base in the clipping mask. (You'll find this option in the layer's palette under the black and white icon. It'll be one of the options in the menu list.) Drag out the rectangular marquee in the mask of the solid color fill adjustment layer. With the mask layer selected in the layers palette, fill it with black paint. Invert the mask (ctrl + I on PC; cmd + I if on a mac). You can use the free transform command (Ctrl + T on PC; Cmd + I on Mac) to resize the masked area.
Some edge techniques...
If you desire to soften the edge, apply the gaussian blur filter. If you want a spattered edge, apply the spatter or sprayed edges filter to the mask...can also try using other filters that work in grayscale which will be the only ones not grayed out. (Note: You could apply the filter(s) to the rectangle first then invert the mask if you prefer). Another method is to use the brush tool and paint in the mask...thick heavy brush set is a good choice. (Note: Use black paint to hide (the image); white paint to reveal (the image); and gray will be semi-transparent (think feathering).
Edit: You don't have to use the rectangular marquee...can use circular or any selection for that matter.
Info on the type tool can be found here.
http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/learn/Photoshop_Elements/type_tool/1_type_tool.htm
You'll most likely want to have your type in the topmost layer(s) of the stack in the layers palette so you don't cover them up with your images. Use move tool to move graphics and type into desired location. You'll find using the grids and/or guides useful in planning out your image.
There's a video on using a scrabook kit (Quick Page) here that might be useful as it shows how things are stacked when building a page:
http://www.alibony.com/video/video-lesson34.htm
For the transform command (resize and rotate), she's using Ctrl + T on PC (cmd + T if on mac) instead of using the menu Edit<Free Transform. I thought I'd add that so you don't get lost with how she's doing that.
Another tutorial on using quick pages:
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/digitalscrapbooking/ss/howtoquickpage_10.htm
I think there might be some of these included with Elements. I don't have a recent version of Elements so I'm not 100% sure where they are located but I'm thinking it's in the Organizer.

Performance of APD with source as 'Query with conditions'

Hi,
I have a question regarding the performance of an APD query with conditions when it is run in the background.
I have an infocube with 80 million records.I have a query to find Top 15 (Condition In query) Customers per territory.
With the help of an APD Query (Source) i wanted to populate the details (customer category , etc) of the Top 15 Customers into a DSO (Target)
Right now it takes 6 minutes to run the query in web.
I wanted to know how feasible it is to use an APD (run in backgrnd) to dump the results of the BEx query (which has conditions Top 15) into DSO.
Also , what other options do i have ?
Appreciate your answers.
Regards

Thomas thanks for the response. I have checked the file on the app server and found that the lines with more than 512 characters are being truncated after 512 characters. Basis team is not aware of any such limits on the app server. I am sure few on the forum would have extracted data to a file on the application server using APD. Please note that the file extraction to the client workstation is working as expected (posts lines more than 512 characters).

Sales order item details with condition types

Hi Guys,
I am uploading the sales order details using DIRECT INPUT method in LSMW, one line item having 5 condition types, but in the item level structure BVBAKPOM, I can able to MAP only four condition types.
Is there any way to map more then 4 condition type in the ITEM level structure? Or do we need to loop the item level structure.
Waiting for your valuable replies
Thanks,
Gourisankar.

Hi Harish,
INOB table key is CUOBJ, At run time the VBAP-CUOBJ is not generated yet. Its value is now "999999999999990001".
I guess once the order is created we will get an entry in INOB.
Do you have any other way with which INOB entry can be selected ?
Thank You.

Frustrated with web galleries

I think I'm about ready to install Gallery on my website and forget about LR's web galleries. I want such simple changes to the defaults, but it seems to be impossible.
I want HTML galleries, not flash. The HTML galleries have the "title" on top and the "description" below the pictures. I thought I could live with this, but I use this as a title and more info. My own eyes were hopping back and forth from top to bottom. That is just unacceptable. The flash galleries, however, have the two together, not separated by the picture.
Forgetting about LR's galleries would also allow me not to have my various metadata fields all mushed together. LR allows you to select multiple items to put into the "description", but no way to format them. Yes, I can put commas, but there are often empty fields, and then it's a mess.
I don't like the font sizes either, but I can fix that by changing one .css file after creating the gallery.
I tried to take the xslt and and xml files extracted from the module, but more files are needed and I don't know which or exactly how to configure them. Even more frustrating because I have found the lines that need to be moved/modified.
I've found descriptions for starting from scratch and other people's flash galleries, but not how to twiddle with the existing galleries. Such small changes I want to do!
Judy

[email protected] wrote:
> I think I'm about ready to install Gallery on my website and forget
> about LR's web galleries. I want such simple changes to the defaults,
> but it seems to be impossible.
>
> I want HTML galleries, not flash.
Me too. I'm taking a different approach to things, though. Rather than
creating a gallery that produces lots and lots of identical pages, each
containing different images and indexes and so on, I'm working on a gallery
that doesn't produce any HTML at all (or, rather, produces very basic HTML
so I can see the images in the Web Gallery Preview). Instead, I just let it
produces the XML file describing the images and (of course) the image files
themselves (in three sizes: thumbnail, display, and full). I've written a
JSP-based application that can read the XML file and produce the appropriate
pages (that is, I'm treating the XML and image files as a database).
The benefit of this is that if I want to change how my site looks or
behaves, I simply change the JSP and *all* of my galleries change
instantly - I don't have to go back and regenerate them. This also frees me
up to use any technology I want to for the display (right now it's HTML,
since I despise Flash, but if a new tech comes along, I can easily adopt
it).
The downside is that I can only put my site on a JSP-capable server. Most
people don't have access to those (because most ISP's only provide straight
HTML and maybe a few canned scripts), but anyone who can put JSP on their
site could probably use this. In fact, I imagine a similar system could be
written in PHP (perhaps that's what Gallery is - I've only glanced at it),
ASP/.NET, CGI, or any other server-side language.
If anyone is interested in learning more about this, I'd be glad to
open-source it when it's ready (or share ahead of time if you're willing to
take an unfinished project). I don't get to the forums as much as I'd like,
so email me: my first name AT my last name with an "s" on the end DOT com
Rob Freundlich
"Males are biologically driven to hunt giraffes" - Newt Gingrich
"Some folks you don't have to satirize - you just quote 'em" - Tom Paxton

Frustrated with all of it!! Music, Word, checking out.....

I have had this Mac for not even a year. Laptop Macbook 10.5.5. I pushed and pushed my husband to let me get this because I heard and THOUGHT it was the best system out there. Simple to use, solid system, better than anything on the market.
Ok, I have been NOTHING but frustrated since I got it. I realize that it takes a while to get used to something new like a Mac when you're used to using a PC all the time. However, this whole thing has gone on for almost a year and I'm about ready to just sell it and go back to what I'm accustomed to.
For one...when I used Word, which I bought special software at Best Buy to be able to integrate my PC work at my office with my Mac, I get error messages constantly, right when I'm in the middle of something, that tells me that Word has encountered a problem and needs to close. Then, it shuts down my whole Word doc without saving any of my work (!!!!!!) and has to restart. Says something about a kernal trap error when I click for specifics.
Second, I can't check out with sites like Wal Mart or Wal Greens when working on photo projects. Will just sit there saying "auto saving project" and will not allow the radio buttons to work for Check Out. This happens when using both Safari and Firefox. ???? Also, I can't upload pics to Craigslist or ebay. Nice. It just sits there, frozen when I try.
I want to be able to share music....just installed LimeWire. When I open it, within seconds, it says that it needs to close and relaunch for some unknown reason.
When I'm working in Excel, it constantly won't let me tab between fields and when I try to "insist" by tabbing, it shuts down.
I'm sure there are tons more issues that I'm not thinking of right now.....oh, yeah, when I'm trying to burn disks with pics or music, it tells me to insert a new disk, I do (brand new out of the box) it spits it back out and tells me that it's not a blank disk. Oh and if it's a CD-RW, it won't show me how to "erase" whatever NON file is one there. GRRRRR
I am seriously beyond frustrated with this. I paid a lot of money for this contraption and I can't even use it. I don't know if I can get some "free" help at a MacStore considering this thing isn't even a year old.

Hello,
a ha! The Show Me state! It takes awhile to get used to a new operating system. Go here:
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
"I don't know if I can get some "free" help at a MacStore considering this thing isn't even a year old"
You can get one on one help at any Apple store. Here's the store location list:
http://www.mithrandir.com/AppleStoreLocationMapMarkers.html
Check out nearby Apple User Groups: http://www.apple.com/usergroups/
Are you doing any maintenance? First one to learn is how to repair permissions:
Run Disk Utility (Applications/Utilities) and Repair Disk Permissions BEFORE and AFTER every software update. Launch Disk Utility. Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select FirstAid, then click: Repair Disk Permissions. Quit DU when it's finished and reboot. That will help keep your Macs happy!
Make sure the hard disk doesn't have any errors:
To check the hard disk:
Open Disk Utility, in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder.
Insert your Mac OS X Install disc in your computer’s optical drive or an optical drive connected to your computer, and then restart your computer. When you hear the startup tone, hold down the C key until you see the progress indicator, which looks like a spinning gear.
Follow the onscreen instructions until the menu bar appears with the Utilities menu in it, choose Utilities > Disk Utility, click First Aid, and then click the Verify button. If DU reports errors, click Repair. When it's finished, from the Menu Bar, select Utilities/Startup Disk. In the Startup Disk window select MacintoshHD 10.x.x and click Restart.
Get Onyx for Leopard: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/onyx.html
Run the Maintenance and Cleaning scripts once a week.
For FAQ's about Mac OS X go here; http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/faqs.html
How to back up your important files; http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1553?viewlocale=en_US
Anatomy of a Mac: http://www.apple.com/findouthow/mac/
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