The day started with a Time Machine problem - I wanted to look for the offending "in progress" files, only to find that Spotlight's index had blown up. Using mdutil at the command line didn't seem to help, but Onyx - something I saw referenced while searching for solutions - did. So that got cleared up. Just as I dealt with that, half the net seemed to disappear on me. At first, given the other problems I'd been having, I thought that maybe Parallels 4 was a really bad install to have done - but then my daughter started complaining about things being inaccessible (separate system) - and I realized that it was some kind of Verizon error. It cleared up within 5 minutes, but given the rest of the days events, it was just too much :)