[drguitar]

Digi, you said this:

Also - one BIG thing to watch out for is that most new Macs come with FW networking enabled. You MUST disable this from the Network control panel, otherwise there will most definitely be problems.

Is this really a problem?

I am not having problems on my machines running 10.5.3 that are all configured with their default post-leopard install networking settings

when I look at Network in System Preferences, it lists Built-in FireWire and says not connected

but there is no disable button.

I want to understand why this is a problem and if it's a big problem, why there isn't a big red flag note to users about this during installation?

thanks for your time