so much for Leopard

OS-X has apparently been through four upgrades.
I think my so-called “silly MAC” came with 10.2, Jaguar.
I never used it until I found I could drive it when my old 9.2 got flaky. (My rig also came with 9.2.)
Then Tiger came out: 10.4 (don’t know if there was a 10.3). So I got it and upgraded my 10.2 to 10.4.
OS-X was fabulous. So much more attractive and reliable than my old 9.2. —It never crashed; 9.2 did occasionally.
So now 10.5, Leopard, has hit the market.
So I ordered 10.5 and installed it last night.
Now I find Apple has done a Gates fat-cat move and tossed the Classic-mode — to me one of the best reasons to run OS-X.
At least half of my apps are Classic; i.e. they won’t run under OS-X. But they did run under OS-X’s Classic-mode — a resident 9.2.
My old Photoshop 4.5 is Classic, as is Quark 4.1. Word 98 and Excel 98 are also Classic apps, plus my Appleworks 5, which I use a lot (I’m using it right now).
My Photoshop Elements is an OS-X app, but it’s not loaded yet. All my browsers are OS-X, and I even loaded Appleworks 6 (an OS-X app), but it lacks the macro-function.
Okay, I could write my macros into Word, but I know how Word is. Too many bells-and-whistles, and it punishes keyboard sloppiness, a stroke-effect (“ya won’t understand until it happens to you”).
So now we have to find an OS-X word-processor that will do macros — supposedly there are some; some even free.
Installation of 10.5 took over two hours.
First the installation DVD was scanned for “consistency;” about an hour.
Then actual installation began, taking over two hours.
As usual, the “time-remaining” calculations were way off. First it was two-hours 49-minutes, then two-hours 51-minutes (huh?); then suddenly it was two-hours 12-minutes.
REPUBLICAN ALERT!
And the “final minute” lasted at least 10.
When completed I found I had to go back to Tiger — back to 10.4; none of my Classic apps worked.
I need that Classic-mode; unless I can find some way to transfer my simple Quark-documents — and there are many.
And an OS-X word-processor that does what Appleworks 5 does.

RE: “my so-called ‘silly MAC’” —All my siblings use PCs, but I use a MAC — making me reprehensible. My blowhard, macho brother-in-Boston coined the phrase “silly MAC.”

RE: “ya won’t understand until it happens to you..........” —My blowhard, macho brother-in-Boston thinks the effects of a stroke, like hand-sloppiness, are sheer poppycock. I had a stroke October 26, 1993. So I tell him “ya won’t understand until it happens to you.”