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I know the title of this post sounds either (1) mystical or (2) like the English-like noise some spam generates, but if you use Keynote and installed Leopard, it might make some sense to you.

Anyway, Keynote has started crashing seemingly randomly. And crashing hard, plunging my entire MacBook into the Chime of Doom and the Blue Screen of Anxiety. App crashes aren't supposed to crash the entire OS, are they?

I did a clean install of Leopard last week, and therefore did a clean install of Keynote. I can't find a pattern to when Keynote crashes. Once it was when I was resizing an image. Another time it was when I pressed the "play" button. But it may be crashing during Keynote only because I've been using Keynote a lot. I was having similar crashes -- but usually not all the way back out of the OS -- rather randomly before upgrading to Leopard. If anything, Leopard has made it worse.

I've run memtest on my RAM for a full night after booting into single user mode, and it says all is ok. Disk Warrior also checks out fine. Yes, it does feel like a hardware problem, and bad RAM especially. But would memtest lie?

I'm loving my Mac. I am not loving feeling like my computer has degraded into a Windows 95 degree of stability.