Q: can only access internet in safe mode

Morning Jagriff,

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Safe mode disables all startup items and login items. Other stuff too.

Mac OS X: Setting up Login, Startup items

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2602

For more information on this, take a look at this article:

Troubleshooting Wi-Fi issues in OS X Lion and Mac OS X v10.6

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4628?viewlocale=de_de

Hope this helps,

Mario