I'm experiencing a symptom I can't help but think is related to Parallels, due to the last upgrade which mentioned a bug having to do with USB devices connected to the VM and drag and drop from the Mac to Windows. In the last four days or so, my Mac has gone into a comatose state three times, requiring power down reboot. Each time it was preceded by the mouse getting jerky--not responding well. Last night, when the mouse started doing that, I started closing applications. First I suspended Parallels. That didn't help. I was closing other apps, and it actually got "stuck" when then mac made some sort of sound and then that sound was repeating. It was definitely "stuck" then, and I hard booted. The day before, when it happened, I let it go. I could still move the mouse and click on things. I decided to see what happened, so I started cleaning my home office, and I noticed that the Mac was running about 20 minutes behind what I was doing. The windows I clicked on came to the front about 20 minutes after I clicked them. But alas, the Mac was stuck like that, unusable, so I power cycled it. I don't recall anything unusual about the first day it happened, but it was preceded by the mouse getting choppy. Closing parallels yesterday, and the Mac still freezing, might eliminate Parallels from the suspect list--but Parallels services are still running, right? And given that I have noticed my machine misbehaving when I drag and drop files onto Windows (I run Windows 2000) from the Mac, e.g., a large number of cycles going to Parallels slowing the machine down, I still tend to think Paralllels is a prime candidate. Any ideas whether this is Parallels or what might be causing it?
