[afteryouwho]

I have a doubt that I need to clear up. (I will try to be brief).

I have a couple of apps I use a lot that for some reason have stopped opening on Snow Leopard. I have done a permission repair with Disk Utility, uninstalled and reinstalled them, etc. but nothing seems to fix the problem.

I am thinking of doing a clean reinstall of Snow Leopard to see if that fixes things after backing up with SD.

When I do a restore from my external HD, will that reinstall the original OS as well? If so, my plan will probably not work. I would like to clear this up before going to all the trouble.

Thanks for any help on this.