when is help not really helpful?

when it tries to solve a problem you didn't have.

case in point, i have been looking around for the functional equivalent of "shutdown items" from mac os 9 under mac os x. so i started googling around, and while some people had posted questions just this simply, people would counter, rather than with answers, with questioning "why would you want to do that? explain what you are trying to accomplish?" basically, trying to shove the person with the question into a corner where the person can actually answer it, but completely counter to what the person having trouble wanted to accomplish.

like i want an applescript to run at shutdown to lower the volume so the startup chime isn't as loud. but looking at the turbo-geek websites out there, all everyone wants to advise is "well, why do you shut down? you never have to shut down mac os x! stop shutting down! you're not running overnight scripts! sleep will save just as much energy! blah, blah, blah" please, please, please stop. i know i don't have to. could we maybe, just maybe get back to my original question? please? if you don't know, then don't reply to my thread. but don't try to re-route the discussion somewhere it was never meant to go. it's gets about as pleasant as trying to cancel an aol account. "cancel my account. why would you want to do that sir? cancel my account. i don't think i can do that sir. you'll thank me later. please, for the love of all that is HOLY, cancel my account!"