Case Senstivity Sux0rs!

A warning to all you Mac people out there:  Do NOT format your drives using the 'Mac OSX Extended (Case-sensitive, Journaled)' option!  Case sensitivity can wreck havok with your software.  So far I've identified three programs that have given me grief because of the case sensitivity: Epson Scan, Starcraft, and Adobe Dreamweaver (30-day trial).  With Starcraft I was able to rename a single file to lower case to get it to work (lost all the maps, but it wasn't a huge deal).  However, Dreamweaver refuses to install (a major bummer after a 600MB download).  

The Epson scan utility has caused the biggest headache.  It will install, and you can access the scanner via TWAIN (which means you can use the built-in app 'Image Grabber' to do basic scanning) but the Epson Scan program will not work!  The annoying thing is that it doesn't give you a reason for failure.  It says 'Epson Scan' in the top left corner of the screen, but then immediately closes, not showing any windows or anything.  It's taken me over 6 months to figure out this is the problem.  It wasn't until I stumbled across this page (search for 'case sensitive' and you'll find the entry, about 1/5 the way down the page) that I realized my problem is probably with the case sensitive format!  I tried renaming different parts of the .app package to lowercase, but that just caused it to say 'This program will not run on this version of OSX' or something like that.  So, I've decided to do a full backup, then create an image of my hard drive, use Disk Utility to reformat my hard drive, and restore the old image.  The full backup is incase I can't restore the old image- boy I hope it works.  I don't want to have to reinstall everything!  That would be a major pain in the gluteous maximus.  I'll get back to you in a couple hours/days to let you know how it went.