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> >1) Booter 1.11.3
> >2) macOS 7.5.3 (i can upgrade or downgrade as needed)
> 
> Just downgraded to System 7.1 and all seems to be well so far....it 
> didn't hang at 'So I sez...' this time....I'll report further on how it 
> goes from here as needed.
> 
> Is 7.5.3 known to be incompatible??

	No.

	Some minimal installs were known to be incompatible,
but I thought I had added enough code to check for this, 
around about the time of 1.11.2

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