Apple has released Leopard update 10.5.2 which addresses dock issues and apparently a bunch of other stuff. It also seems to have fixed the Photoshop CS3 issue with the crop tool that I had posted about previously. I have not had a lot of work to do in Photoshop since running the update a few days ago, but is seems like the problem is gone... (fingers crossed that I am right!)
The install went smoothly on my MacPro and my MacBook but after running the installer, my MacBook Pro froze. (I left it alone for two hours and it made no progress... it froze.)
I had to force a restart and when I did, my MacBook Pro was not well. No internet connections, it would hang if I opened System Preferences and was displaying a boatload of other odd behaviors. It was not good. I downloaded the 10.5.2 update and ran it again, and it took the second time and restarted like normal... it seemed.
But after it finished booting, the fans came on after about 30 seconds and after looking at activity monitor where both processors were running at about 40-60% I realized that my troubles were not over.
I was able to isolate the problem to the spotlight indexing and I used
Onyxto reset the Spotlight index which forced the laptop to completely re-index the drive but it seemed to solve the problem. I'll post more if that changes.
The problems I had with the install on the MBPro also illustrate why having a good backup is critical. I would strongly suggest backing up your computer (with a bootable backup) before running any update for just this reason. Had it really killed my laptop, I would have just restored the machine from the backup and tried again. Time machine is not a bootable backup, fyi. Use something like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable backup.
Happy updating!
