!stop press! - bloodline buys a Powerbook G4

[itix]

The new 12" Powerbook G4 with a 1.5Ghz CPU and a 60gig HD might fill my needs..

Dont you know it is dead? See here. :-D Sell it while it is still worth of something ;-)

[itix]

Seriously for a second, how does one get application to show up on the desktop in MacOSX... lets say, the application disapears for some reason, then when you click on the icon to open it up again, the title bar changes to your app, but none of the windows open

It never 'disappeared' but was 'iconified' just like on Amiga. On Apple when you click window close button it closes window but the program stays. You can open new window from program menu.

There are 3rd party commodities to fix this annoyment :-)

[itix]

Do you know of anything that will allow me to change the highlight colour for seleceted text? That is still a major problem for me, changing just the background colour isn't enough

Nah, no idea, since I dont have any kind of Mac :-)