In message <20030606095153.A828D53E7F@thoreau.thistledown.com.au>, Simon Burge 
writes:

My [ description of fsck inactivity removed... ]

>Are the fsck pass numbers ok in your /etc/fstab?

Many thanks, that was it.  (Or at least part of it, I don't want
to take it down to test right now.) I feel really stupid now, only
because I don't think someone would root my box to only change that
field in /etc/fstab. 8^)  Must have been stupidity followed by
amnesia.

Jon