[Obsidian Dragon]

Ok. I read your post the wrong way and I though you were calling me ignorant. I reread it again after what you said and I can see what you're saying. I call myself things at times too. No problem.

I may be too optomistic too but I would think that you should be able to format the drive and install OSX 10.5.x (optionally upgrade to 10.5.8) and then install Protools 8.0.1 (upgrade to latest cs available for that version of Protools). I haven't done it myself, but have read others do this when Snow Leopard and Protools 8.0.3 gave them too much problems with their plugins. You can try this out by doing the installs to an external drive and making it your boot drive to test if it works for you first. Good luck.