Mayday, S.O.S.
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RED ALERT. My iMac won’t boot, thanks to the 10.4.10 update to Mac OS X. I’m frantically trying to solve the problem by mimicking people who successfully finagled their way out of the same issue during the 10.4.9 update. The most helpful things I’ve found are Igor Minar’s posts and this article from Unsanity. All I have to say on the subject is that updating my Windows machines never killed them. Generally speaking that happened before I updated them or after, but not as a direct result of the update. Darn you, Apple. Darn you to heck. 
For those of you wondering - yes, I am a bit too calm about this. Probably because I realize that 3 years worth of my life is stored in digital form on this computer. Photos, projects, papers, music, programs, everything. I don’t want to erase myself and start over, which is the conventional wisdom (or at least the conventional tech support wisdom) for these situations. I want to save my own butt. And to do that, I gotta be calm. Pray for me. I just might lose it if things go south. But I’ll lose it calmly. Ha ha.