Only improvement I've found with Snow Leopard for my uses is it's slightly faster than Leopard. However some other things annoy me. Behaviour of some desktop apps (Dock apps) has changed for the worse. Repairing permissions in safe boot takes forever. Some other 3rd party programs do not behave well in Snow Leopard; eg: I've had to force reboot the computer because the program would not properly force quit (interface still visible even though the app had disappeared from the active programs list.)

I'd need to do some more testing of the firewall to find out more.

I completely agree with your comments on Snow Leopard.

Snow Leopard is a great operating system, however it seems to require that most all applications be rewritten to ensure pure computer happiness.

If I come up with any answers I will post them here.

Thanks again Lord Of The Rings and have a great Christmas.