Now that 10.5.2 is out, I can finally resurrect one of my pre-Leopard tips, so I thought I'd share it. The update allows you to pick List under the View content as section of each Stack's Options menu, so you can again access hierarchical lists of files and folders. My favourite use for this is as a application launcher. Just create folder – I call mine QuickLaunch – anywhere on your hard disk, and within that create subfolders for each type of application you use. I use CandyBar to give everything pretty icons, but you don't have to. Drag aliases of applications into the relevant folders, and remember that you can drop the alias into more than one folder if you want it to appear in more than one category. Once you're done, drag the QuickLaunch folder itself to your Dock, and pick Display as Icon and View content as List from the Options submenu.

Now you can keep your Dock clear of all but your most essential apps, and have two-click access to your 'b-list' apps and utilities.

Remember that you don't just have to include apps; drag in server aliases, URLs from Safari and even documents too.

One man's experience does not a catastrophe make, but when longtime MacFormat contributor Mark Sparrow installed the new 10.5.2 update for Mac OS X on his G5, it caused no end of problems. We're still investigating, but there seems to be a problem with Entourage and even Mail, with the SystemUIServer process hanging. Permissions repair, fsck; nothing seems to fix it. Mark is in the process of reinstalling from his Leopard DVD now. What are your experiences? Installs going OK?

For the record, I've installed 10.5.2 on my MacBook and Mac mini at home, and both went without a hitch. I can't tell you how delighted I am to have an opaque menubar and folder icons showing up properly in my Dock.

UPDATED All hail the power of the internet; turns out Marks problems were, as our commenter Sigurdur suggested, to do with FontExplorerX; there's a thread on Apple's discussion boards if you want more info.