Thanks belanger...

Even more crazy...the applet did not work this morning (again). I started to add some debugging file 'write' statements to it, and it started to work. I took them out again, and it continued to work. I put the original Python app back (just to make sure), and it still worked!

From over 20 years in the computer world, one of a programmer's worst scenerios is a bug that cannot be reproduced. If I didn't know any better, I would say that the fault cannot be with MChronos itself -- but I realize that to blame the OS is even more crazy.

Hmmm...maybe it has to do with the 'time of day' or something very subtle for it to behave like this! Anyways, I will keep an eye on it.