Hi Doug,
that is not normal behavour for Axe-Edit, I have been running it for years on my Mac and PC without anything bad like that.
Although I have not run leopard in years, they are very helpful over on their forums so hopefully they can sort you out.
It is a very good editor, the patch management has been poor up until the last but one release
It certainly makes using the Axe-Fx a lot easier.
