This is as good a place as any to note this.

Earlier this week, I was experiencing a very interesting problem with FF - drop down menus wouldn't stay dropped - click on them, and they'd flash for less than a second. I went through the usual FF troubleshooting checks, which didn't fix the problem, so I started using Safari - which didn't exhibit this issue. Using the Cmd-Tab to switch between programs, I noticed that too was exhibiting bad behavior, similar to what was happening with FF - only this time, holding down the key combination would result in uncontrolable cycling through the available program icons.

This was something I experienced before - and it always ended up being a Logitech driver problem. Since I hadn't updated the LCC (Logitech Control Center) drivers, or otherwise made any changes since deleting the unnecessary scroll wheel controller that interfered with Growl in Leopard, it was obviously a corruption within the Logitech files - not an uncommon problem.

I went to Library>Application Support>Logitech and deleted the folder. Deleted all of the preferences, too. I restarted and emptied the trash. I checked Firefox for bad behavior, and it was fine - as was the Cmd-Tab app switching, so I downloaded a fresh set of drivers and reinstalled - only to have the same problem. I did this a half-dozen times, and figured that maybe the latest Leopard update had broken the LCC. I searched the 'net for anything about this problem, but found nothing.


I tried installing an older set of LCC drivers, but that didn't work either. I tried using the Logitech removal tool via Terminal, and that didn't work at all.

I deleted the Logitech folder for the very last time, restarted and emptied the Trash, resigning myself to a shortcut-less mouse experience until the next update was released. Just to make sure there was no Logitech cruft left, I ran a Spotlight search, and found that there was a Logitech file in the Library>>Preference Pane folder.

I simply removed it manually - dragging it to the trash and restarting. I then tried, for the last and final time, to reinstall the LCC drivers, and guess what - all of the problems were solved.

So, leaving those old preference panes behind is not just a matter of housekeeping - they can get corrupted and affect the system operations.

Neither my PowerPC iMac or Intel Chip MacBook show "Other" under System Preferences. How do you get them to show up?

It will only show up when you install "other" preference panes. Try installing Flip4Mac and see if it appears.