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Sibelius 3.1 Not Behaving

History: My home imac with 400mhz, 20G HD and 1G ram and an external fireware hd of 120G: was booting Sibelius 2.0 when my son bashed on the turned on keyboard with midi attached. Things got fried. I put in a clean system, got a newer Motu fastlane midi and stupidly upgraded to Sibelius 3.1. Since being fried, nothing has wanted to work correctly. It hangs, requires huge amounts of ram (Photshop dosen't even need that much!) and won't extract parts-it gives me type 2 and 3 errors! Forget scanning; even though my scanner works fine by itself. All my other appications work great..quicken, emails, word processing, photoshop, etc. I'm asking ya'll at macmall 'cause I'm never home to call Sibelius and I need more info. I have Sibelius 2.0 at school on a dell pc (not large memory) and it works great! Can anyone help?

What Software For Sequencing/composing

To all the wise and experienced composers!
The school accompanist and I are learning midi imput. We make tapes for the classrooms, etc. and she will do composing. We both run imacs: she has 8.6 and I have 9.2.2. She also has an external sequencer (Proteus?) I have Music Shop and Finale software. Finale does not work in any midi entry yet (I'm playing with my syncs, etc.) Music Shop works just fine. The high school runs on PC's and has Sebilus composing software. Should we buy new software? If so, what?

Music Time

I am using an imac dv special with an external harddrive of 120gigs with a Clavonia keyboard and a friends borrowed sequencer. Using Music Time software, I could not get it to play material prevously recorder and brought into Music Time. I could get it to play material from the midi 1 (keyboard0 and the tutorials. Music time recorded the sequerencer tracks and they showed on the screen. We just couldn't hear them to help editing go faster! Any help would be appreciated.

Also, my school has old macs running system 7's and finale 3 somethings. I haven't been able to get them set up to record midi data. I seem to remember the old midi manager being important...Is that still out in cyber space or is something newer abvailable.

Hope this is good enuf info for any help! Thanks so much!