[willard202]

OK, so I am looking for the right behavior. A sheet does slide down, but the error comes after I enter the password and hit enter.

Just to correct my own report, I'm running 10.4.11 on the host database machine, but 10.4.9 on the syncing machine (the unreasonable loyalty to 10.4.9 is a concession to Digidesign's Protools which is running fine in that particular OS version on that particular machine and if it ain't broke don't fix it). But I do have other options for testing.

As you've confirmed, my main issue is not being able to build a dB to sync to, that narrows areas for investigation. I'll try in other machines with fresh OF documents. Maybe I have a corrupt application, need disk permissions or desktop repair etc. I'll report back my progress.

Thanks