I have the same methods in 10.5.9  Just pressing relaunch is enough to do the trick, though the number of times is variable.

When I try to open PSLaunch it tells me that there is an update available but that I don't have the correct permissions to install it, and that I need to use an administrator account.  I am the administrator.  Is there maybe a way to launch an updater via terminal that I can just Sudo it, or am I missing some simple fix?

Got the client up and running with no problems in Mac OS 10.5.8 after following the directions in the thread.  Ran through the tutorial with no problems, except that the furnace is invisible.  Also, I was told to find Xordan, who apparently isn't in the tutorial anymore.  Abelia couldn't understand me when I told her I'd completed the tutorial, but did understand when I said I just wanted to leave.  That might have been my mistake somewhere along the line.

Otherwise what I've seen so far is absolutely beautiful and the voice acting made me smile real big.  Thank you so much for all of your effort on this game.  The changes that have happened since '04 are incredible   I'll keep looking.

I went through the migration and played for awhile during Crystal Blue.  The problem is that the e-mail account I used no longer is active.  When I was playing before the switch over to Steel Blue my client remembered my password so I thought nothing of whether or not it was active.  The same thing happened on the forums (My old username was Jakob back in the day), but it's much more depressing to lose characters and character names.