Need GUI "plan of attack" suggestions

I'm looking for suggestions on going about a chess board gui. I want this to look nice, not cheaply done, since it will be used with several different side projects I am beginning to work on such as an correspondance chess client and notation converters.
I would prefer the pieces to be "drag and drop", all ideas are fine with me though. Resizeable is also desired.
I wasn't sure what the best way to go about it was as far as having many panels, or one big canvas, etc, etc. I haven't dealt with drag and drop with java before, so i'm really not sure what the best things to use are as far as the inner work or even the best type of images for it. Any suggestions will help.
A board functioning much like the one from games.yahoo.com/ch would be best.
It needs to be able to have custom positions built as well, and scroll through to earlier parts of the game, and possibly through different branches.
Any GUI experts out there know a good way of tackling this side of the project?

I'd probably make a GridLayout of panels. You can use a MouseListener
to tell which panel you're over for picking up/moving pieces. You can render
pieces as images on top of the panel, and drag/drop similarly to:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/images/doublebuffering.html
When they drop a piece, you can ask the listener what cell you're over,
erase your floating image, and dump it into the center of that cell.
Of course, that's with 20 seconds of thought.

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Should be able to answer your own question by physically trying to rotate the blades with a thin tool or blowing into the blades & if bearings good it should rotate easily.
bearings fail, fan motor/boards fail, mainboard control & power can also fail !
Most modern equipment has almost no real effort in proper thermal control so some modifications may help but you will be limited in what is achievable on a finished product.
Here in Asia we have done a lot of notebook cooling mod combo's such as vent increases, thermal shims, quality thermal grease & secondary 25 to 30mm 5v case venting fans with internal porting & baffles to help good airflow/heat extraction with great results in reducing overheating & component failure ...
Should be done at the factory !
For $10 of parts we reduced a custom dv2500 with T770 & Nvidea graphics by 25% & made the machine reliable & feel safe rather than a lap microwave ...
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I'm glad it worked out well.
The idea of starting in Safe Mode is that it runs a directory check and eliminates everything but Apple installed startup items, fonts other than System/Library and other items. It often helps to isolate an issue. (But not his time).
The re-install you did was probably best and easiest way to handle it. When you update use the 10.5.1 Combo Update This is a fuller install, as opposed to an incremental "delta" update (the one from software update) so it should overwrite any files may still be damaged or missing.
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Sales document which is the central document in Customer Service (CS) to which other Customer Service documents can refer.
Structure
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Cancellation terms
Follow-up actions
Texts
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Price agreements
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Cancellation terms
Technical objects
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Integration
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