For reference, you're still using OS 9 with gobs of cheap user-submitted fonts, right?
No, OS10.2 and they have cleaned up the fonts. The issue of the Mac not being able to handle fonts is behind us thanfully. If ever we get a font with client art that the Mac can't deal with, I just dump the ad into photoshop, flaten it, drop it in and move on. Text gets rasterized and looks worse but who has time to fix it (Mac quality?)
No matter the source of the particular problem of the moment on the Mac, though, the point is that when a Mac crashes you lose all your work. Something that does not seem to happen on a PC running XP.
It will make you happy, perhaps, to hear that I have found something I like better about a Mac: The menu bar that remain at the top of the screen and merely changes depending on what program is opened. And other than the problems it has with crashing/data loss, the Mac works.
Good to hear from you again. FReepRegards!