[Qgis-user] ftools query

[Erica Donnelly-Swift]

Hi All,


I'm having difficulty loading ftools... I'm working on Mac OSX 10.5.8,  
QGIS 1.4.0

I have two vector .shp files, one contains counties and the other  
contains collision points.
I'm trying to link the collision points with the counties to create  
one new shape file I need to have an attribute table that contains the  
information from both maps as I will be exporting this data into R for  
analysis. (e.g. I need an attribute table allowing the collisions to  
correspond with county names).  I have read on an older post that  
ftools is required, however I'm having difficulty loading this plugin.


Plugins -> manage plugins  and ftools is selected, however when I  
scroll through my plugins drop-down menu, ftools is not present?
Is there any step I'm missing to install ftools?
(Aside: looking at fetch python plugins the status of ftools is  
'installed')


Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks


Regards

Erica