Well, I've resolved these issues while trying to get a different application to work. In the unlikely event that someone else has the same problem, it seems I somehow removed my own write permissions to my home directory. (Very strange on a brand-new machine...) With that fixed (by doing "get info" on my home directory), everything works great, so I guess you can consider this issue closed.
This also seems to have fixed some other issues I've seen people complaining about with 10.6 here. (For example, I had the problem of Lyx thinking it had crashed John Perry discussed: http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support/msg/3128f4898a618319) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---