Updated Leopard to 10.5.3...

Just updated to Leopard and done a couple of restarts. The first thing I tried was the Excel bug which I was unable to reproduce. Finally I thought, they have fixed the bug! Well just to be sure I started Numbers where I had an other easily reproduced bug.

I was able to reproduce a bug in Numbers the same way as before but there was a slightly different result. Earlier the window manager stoped respond to any command directly, now however the window manager froze completely for about a minute (while I was unable to move the mouse etc). After a while I was able to get up the "Force quit" window. During this time a couple of areas of the screen had become black or garbaged. And I could see how the clock in the menu bar was stuck.

So after this quick test I'm sorry to inform that even if Leopard 10.5.3 has fever bugs then 10.5.2 the bugs could still surface when you least want to. I'm sticking with Tiger for now but might try a clean installation of Leopard just to be sure.

Below are two images from slightly after the bug and quite a while after the bug, more than the 8 min that the clock would indicate, the images are retouched to remove personal names but not otherwise modified.