[Hidden-tech] Mac 10.4 Questions

[Shel Horowitz]

I'd appreciate some help with a few snags I've run into with Mac OS 10.4.10.

1) I tried to uncompress a new driver for my router, which all of a 
sudden can only find the two hard-connected computers and not 
anything over the wireless network. Stuffit Expander told me it 
couldn't run without Stuffit Engine, which has unaccountably vanished 
from my computer. Searching the web, it seems it's no longer a 
no-cost product, and nor could I find any competitors. Given how few 
files I need to decompress, I'm not in a great rush to buy a file 
uncompressor.  What are folks using these days?

2) Is there *any* way to change the default setting on the Finder's 
search function so that it searches a string in a file name, rather 
than a text string within documents? I could literally write an 
article while it searches and I always forget to change it. Besides, 
it would save me oodles of time reconfiguring it every day if I could 
default to what I need for 98 percent of my searches.

3) In general, performance on my G4 iMac has been absurdly slow for 
several months. Yes, I have a lot of files--but  I also have 11.87 GB 
of unused disk space. It just crawls--like taking several minutes 
over broadband to download the router firmware. Any recommendations 
to speed it up? I was thinking I could off-load several gigs to an 
external drive, and that might at least speed up iPhoto. is that a 
good method? Are there better?

4) I'm using Spamfire 1.0. Recentl, I started having a problem with 
some mail addressed to shel at principledprofit.com--but when I try to 
rescue, Spamfire gives me: "Error 450 unable to find 
principledprofits.com" (note the s in the domain--it's not in the 
actual email). The company has closed its support department. Any 
ideas?

Thanks so much,
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