solving the protools blues

The backstory

I put protools 6.0 on a 10.2.4 system and it only halfways works. It will
edit existing files, but not create new ones. It’s also fairly unstable.

Update

My poor little 40 gigabyte hard disk was near filled up (looking forward
to the day when i can whine that 40 terrabytes is not enough. i remember
my first hard disk held ten megabytes and it was HUGE… anyway), so I
went and got an external firewire drive to hold sound data. It’s fast. I
dig it.

Then the lightbulb went on. I installed Jaguar on the firewire drive. I
installed only the necessary components. No printer drivers or anything
else. Then I disabled smart update and downloaded the 10.2.3 update and
installed it. (10.2.3: http://makeashorterlink.com/?A23D12BD3 )
Then I e-disabled smart update. I installed the drivers for my
midihardware and then installed protools 6.0 on to the drive.

the result

I have a dual boot system, one is 10.2.4 where i can install all the
broken upgrades and lame junk that I want, and the other is 10.2.3 where
nothing is installed but the base system and protools stuff. Protools is
working great for me. I’m able to have a protools only system (where
system = operating system) without buying a new computer.

I’m going to go burn a disk of the 10.2.3 update and the midi drivers so
i’ll always have a hardcopy of the software i need in case anything goes
wrong.

Mario is the bomb for helping out with this.