MACFENTON  As a longtime user of Typestyler in its earlier OS9 version, I cannot see what would bring me to buy this new (?) version for $200. C'mon Strider make it affordable, the US economy cannot afford to bail everyone out.  
(Version 10.6.39)

MACFENTON  Will LeopartAssist work for an older Mac using a processor upgrade card, such as a Sonnet Crescendo PCI 1GHz?

I seem to recall that it might, but am not 100% on this.

I'd gladly buy a new Mac with Leopard on it IF I had the extra cash laying around, but it seems the wife AND I want to continue to eat and live indoors, for some strange inexplicable reason.

Hopefully LA will fill the void.

Thanks.  
(Version 2.3.3)

MACFENTON  If you can't find the converter with Belkin, here's a couple of places that might have one:

http://www.usbstuff.com OR

http://www.blackbox.com

Hope this helps.  
(Version 2.4)

MACFENTON  I first downloaded the demo and noticed that it played quite slowly for me, but was still a lot of fun. So I decided to make the purchase. To my sheer delight the game was not as clunky as the demo and the Firing Range really helped me to figure out new ways of winning (ie, the Grenades when lofted on a high trajecotry and allowing for the bounce are a great weapon as is the Barrel Maker).

The three things that would make this a better game and a better value would be to have more weapons, choice of soundtrack and maybe better graphics. Other than that you can chew up a lot of time blowing things up!!

Great game.  
(Version 1.5.8)

MACFENTON  MacUpdate's promos have given me quite a few very useful apps for minimal price. More bite for your buck and great review to boot!  
(Version )

MACFENTON  Have you tried re-starting under OS 9 with the shuffle as just a USB device?

Since the Apple Restore deletes all your music and restores it to "good as new", maybe that might help or at least it might get it to mount then you could restart under OS X and try to see if it will mount then.

Not sure if this will work, but it's an idea (just).  
(Version 1.0.1)