Stuffit Will Not "Expand" .sit Files

Please help. Every time I double-click a ".sit" file (or, select Stuffit from the "open with" menu item), a small windows opens for less than a second, then closes. Nothing else happens. I can't tell what the window is because it only flashes on the desktop.

I am experiencing no other problems on my PM. I have deleted all the Stuffit files I could find using Spotlight; Repaired Disk Permissions and Repaired Disk (no problems found in either); re-booted, and re-downloaded and re-installed Stuffit Expander -- but, I get the exact same results.

It must be something simple that I am overlooking, as I am fairly new to the Mac world. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

2.3GHz PM, Mac OS X (10.4.2), 3GB RAM

Posted on Jan 19, 2006 9:33 AM

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Jan 19, 2006 3:47 PM in response to maclover

maclover - thanks again for the response. What does "you could have a trawl here" mean?

I went to the support link you provided and followed the instructions (even though it appears the problem described in this link is for when Stuffit crashes upon opening - Stuffit opens fine for me, but crashes upon attempting to expand a file). Anyway, I turned off "version checking" in Stuffit (I was able to do that without going through all the steps...all my other settings were as described), but the results are still the same: Stuffit crashes the moment it tries to expand a ".sit" file. More suggestions?

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