All's well that ends well
Sorry for the turkey shoot, folks. Turns out either the Marine Aquarium application or its preference file was corrupt, leading to the crashing, presence of the menu bar, odd screen flashing going into and out of screen saver mode...
This became apparent as I tried to do an extensions conflict test and symptoms changed and culprits grew in number. I finally decided to do a clean installation of MA--and that solved all of it.
But I am still surprised that the OS 9 version runs so many frames per second slower than the X version under 10.1.5. Almost everything I can think of runs faster in 9 than in X!
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