When OS X 10.3 was released, many 3rd party video cards quit working. A Unix command circulated the internet that would restore functionality for many of these disabled cards, that being- sudo nvram boot-args="romndrv=1". My 2nd monitor run off an old iXMicro TwinTurbo card fell victim to this but the Unix command fixes it for me. I only have to run the command if I boot into OS 9. When I boot back into OS X, the 2nd monitor is disabled until I run the command and restart the machine. Not a big deal, but I finally had the brilliant thought that I should write an Applescript to run the command and save a bit of time and effort. It seems simple enough, but like most things w/Applescript, it tends to be a bit more difficult than I think it will be. A bit of research on Apple's site says I should not use "sudo" but instead do something like: do shell script "command" user name "user" password "mypassword" with administrator privileges. So I type up the script and try to check its syntax and Applescript complains about the quotes around "romndrv=1". So I read a bit further and see I need to add an escape backslash for the quotes in the shell script like this /". So now my script reads as follows: do shell script "nvram boot-args=\"romndrv=1\"" user name "rjay" password "" with administrator privileges Now when I check syntax, it complains about "user name" following the closing quote of the command (a property can't go after this ""). Can anyone help? Thx, RJay