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It was impossible for me to activate my new Verizon Wireless MiFi following the terrible instructions provided by Verizon. It appears the version of VZAccess Manager (software stored on your MiFi used to activate it) is incompatible with Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). You have to download a new version from Verizon's website to get it to work.

Verizon's MiFi Support page VZAccess Manager software for 10.6 (You'll have to enter your MiFi's phone number, which you can actually get off the WRONG version of VZAccess Manager, but you have to install the wrong version first.)

Before installing the new version of VZAccess Manager, you need to uninstall the old version. The uninstall option is under the VZAccess Manager menu, if I remember correctly. Somewhere along the way, while fussing with the wrong version of VZAccess Manager, something (I think from the cell tower) started updating the MiFi, and it activated on its own, without my credit card info and without my name and address. Geesh. Have to call into them this morning and pass that along.