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Mac OS X sucks?

Yeah something really nasty just happened to my computer. Apple Mail started barfing on an incoming comment submission, then it said I had no messages in any of my mailboxes. Then it unexpectedly quit. I tried restarting it but it wouldn't start. I tried rebooting, and a ton of my system preferences disappeared. All my Mozilla/Explorer/Safari bookmarks, the fact that I turned off all the annoying window closing/opening animations. It's like someone deleted parts of ~/Library. What gives? I wonder if Indierocklibrarian sent me a specially formatted comment that took advantage of a buffer overflow present in Mail? Kinda doubtful since MT doesn't show anything odd. =).

The weirdest ass thing about this whole experience? I imported my "old" os x mailboxes. It kept a few messages from my sent-messages and inbox prior to 2003 (seemingly at random). It kept all the mail in my other mailboxes, though. So naturally when I went to check my mail (I leave all my mail on the server), it downloaded 4000 messages, mostly duplicates of everything that was sorted.

Oddly, mail kept my mail filter rules. A few other apps have kept some of their prefs as well (X11 kept the applications menu, but forgot about my mouse preferences).

In conclusion, it seems that I randomly lost random pieces of random software's preferences. I'm not sure whether to be PO'd or not, so I think I will be.