Finally manage to get new one installed (dunno how, but I think it has to do with me opening any log i can find in the installer and WATCHING it install). Now the dropdown menus don't seem to wanna open. I click on menu, get the whirly 'wait/working' cursor for about a minute, then it stops, no menu. At least in the pinstripes theme, where the menus are on the OsX menu bar instead of on the LW browser.

But even so, I can't change skins w/out using menu command key combos, many of which I never bothered to learn. Not only that, ever since installation, I can't seem to open menus in several OTHER programs! PictureViewer and GarageBand so far! WHAT is that?! Solutions? Theories? Please?