I installed Spector 3 days ago. The installation went smoothly and I did all the usual permission repairs to assure a smooth installation. On restart I got a kernel panic. Couldn't repair this with TechTools or DiskWarrior. Tried the original Mac OS 10.3 install disks and ran Disk Utility. I ran "Repair Permissions" and it took 15 minutes repairing permissions on thousands of System files. No, that's not an exaggeration - I just watched the list of repaired files scroll by or a full 15 minutes.

I stupidly went through the entire process again thinking that I might have done something wrong. Same result. Tried updating my OS from 10.3.5 to 10.3.9: clean install, etc. And, again, the kernel panic and lengthy permission repairs.

I ran the Spector uninstaller but that apparently didn't really remove it: I keep get dialog boxes and alerts from Spector.

Looks like this program is doing some messing with low-level system files and, apparently not doing it correctly. This has all been a tremendous waste of time . . . and I'll still have to run a complete reinstallation. If that doesn't do it then it'll be more time for a complete reformat and install. In 20 years of using Macs this is the worst software problem I've ever had.

To be fair to the vendor I'll update this when and if they can tell me how to correct this mess.