How to make visible aliases invisible?

[Markintosh]

Yes I saw that route too. I had not installed Developer Tools so I failed to try it. So yesterday morning I did a complete reinstallation and it came out fine this time with proper visibility on all files. I had also noticed some other wackiness with some files not appearing in proper places when I tried some other solutions. A reinstall seemed like the thing to do. Took less than an hour as I still had my flash drives set up.

It's all good now...just need to run monolingual and install iWork.