I'm having problems with orca crashing when running admin apps

[mike]

Hi, I can run most of the admin apps in the root account. But for some reason Orca seems to crash quite often after I have had one opened for a short time.
For example, the login window app seems to crash Orca as does the package manager. Is this a known problem?
   One other thing. Why is it that the update manager gives a progress report when used in the root account, but in my account I get no progress report when it is downloading? The same is true when using add remove programs. The progress report is very handy, so I hope this can be corrected. If not, how about a beep instead.
   Mike.
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