David,
When I say it went into the weeds, I meant it was completely frozen. No amount of keyboarding or mouse movement would get it going. Could not get to it from any other computer - it was frozen, big time. I noticed this sort of issue would happen with the machine having sat for days and days on end with no human interaction. Now, I will say that it WAS doing something at one point - I was running an application called BOINC Manager - an app that allows multiple packages to run in the background, like the old SETI, Rosetta, etc.?
It seems that if I messed with the RPi on a daily (or so) basis, it would be fine. But if I left it alone for a long period of time, I guess it got lonely and thought I'd abandoned it!
Anyway, with the new one I plan on shutting it down at the end of the day and not letting it get the chance to ding me like the old one!
