Peculiar behavior in my new iMac

I just purchased a new iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. OSX 10.5.4.
Having just weathered the worst crash I've ever had on my former iMac (a logic board problem, evidently), I am a bit paranoid about my new Mac. I have two questions, and they are small, so I'm going to ask both here:
1. Why is it that when my daughter plays her Sims 2 game, when she closes it, the desktop icons are way over in the middle of the screen and must be put back? Is there a solution for this?
2. Sometimes when I pass my mouse over the icons in the dock, an icon will disappear leaving a faint greyness when the mouse is on it, instead of rising to the occasion as expected. What's up with this? I tried zapping the PRAM, although that seemed odd with a new computer, and it seemed to help, but I noticed it happening again this morning. What can I do about this?
Thanks for all help,
Eklutna
Message was edited by: Eklutna

Hi Eklutna -
Sorry, I don't know the answer to your second problem but the first is no doubt caused by the Sims game changing the resolution of your screen in order for the game to play properly. When you finish the game and quit, it changes the resolution back to what it was but sometimes icons are moved towards the centre of the desktop. This has happened to me before and isn't a problem as such, more a glitch.
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    bought my new iMac and setup mailboxes. 
    all emaiil from comcast server was downloaded (more thaqn 35,000 mail messages)
    when browsing mail I noticed mail body text was not showing in the preview window, but the message showed in the list.
    I could see the message if I doubleclicked on it and opened it.
    sometimes the mail text and images would be flashing and sometimes missing, other times present.
    I called Apple support and went through several steps to try and zero in on the problem.
    we reset and reindexed.
    we created a copy of the mail folder on the desktop
    Created a new mailbox and mail seemed to work OK, until the mail folder was imported into the new mailbox, then I had the same weird problem.
    somehow, when I went back to my original mailbox, there were none of the old mail items in the mailbox and they were all missing from the mail server. 
    All the 35,000 emails were gone.  It looks like the setting in the new mailbox must have been set to delete emails from the server (maybe as a default)
    after a few weeks, the mailbox continued to accumulate emails and I have not seen that problem again.
    It appears that there was some mail buffer in the new iMac that got overloaded or exceeded capacity and couldn't handle the 35,000 emails.
    But, I need to recover those deleted emails.
    Has anyone found the cause for this erratic behavior whith large mail folders?
    I still have that old mail folder
    how can I restore it and recover those emails, without erasing what I now have (new emails) from the server?
    is there a limit on the number of emails on the iMac?  my old Mac dual G5 system didn't have this problem.
    Thanks,
    Matt

    You could try importing the mailboxes (File ▹ Import Mailboxes) from the old Mail folder, at the risk of possibly corrupting the database again. There is no fixed limit on the number of messages, and the number you had is not unusual. It's corrupt messages that cause problems.

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