Odds & Ends: OpenType fonts & ATM; Entourage & Palm syncing; more

OpenType fonts and ATM Jere Beagley installed OpenType fonts (see previous coverage) that were included as part of Adobe Font Folio and activated them in Adobe Type Manager (ATM). After a restart, all activated fonts were deactivated. The solution was to remove the OpenType fonts from ATM's listing. Adobe tech support could nor provide a better work-around.

Entourage and Palm syncing A MacFixIt Forums thread (Entourage no longer syncing with Palm) describes a failure of Entourage to sync with Palm devices after installing the new Word Security Update. Update: Jason Rohlfing had no problems synching here.

Launcher problems revisited We had previously noted a TIL article (18445) offering a solution to a "Mac OS: -39 or -192 Error Opening Launcher" problem. A reader noted that we had never mentioned another TIL article (86059) that describes the similar solution to a "Launcher Extends Below Bottom of Screen" problem (a symptom we had also mentioned before).

Agax 1.3 Wyn Parkin found that after installing Agax 1.3 (an antivirus utility last updated in 1999), he could no longer decompress files using MacZip. If he further enabled Agax's Defender extension, the Finder would crash at startup. Disabling and deleting the Agax 1.3 software eliminated all symptoms. We have not had other reports of this.

Mac OS 9.2 fixes sound bugs? A reader working with the latest version of the as-yet-unreleased Mac OS 9.2 writes: "They finally seem to have fixed all the sounds bugs I had with my Power Mac G4. I'm playing some of my favorite MP3s with iTunes right now and it sounds better than ever."