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Last night opened the MBP from a long sleep. I pressed a key when in Firefox and it quit instantly. Open textedit and could not type. Same for Safari. But I could in a Fluid app. Keys were very odd so while it was still on I copied files to another machine. This morning I couldn’t type anything so I did an archive/install. The option to erase/install wasn’t immediately obvious as the Leopard CD has the older 10.5.1
This went well until it surprisingly asked me to login and even though the password was the one I use on all machines it refused it. I tried the other 2 possibilities and again no joy. Off to the Apple forums and using the Install disk I managed to reset the password. Then Airport refused to see the network. The network couldn’t see it either. Much resetting and changing things eventually worked. Odd.
I’ve not done an archive/install before so was very surprised indeed to find all the apps I had been using just where I had left them. So if it was an app that did it, then the app is back where it was - and it’ll all happen again. I can understand archive/install but I imagined it would work by not connecting the old to the new. By having a clean system ready for you to then bring back what you wanted. So this hybrid is not only odd it is not what I wanted. I will always favour a complete erase/install. So that is the goal now - to make it do what I wanted it to do.

Update: Erase and Install commenced.