Just wanted to drop a line letting all concerned know that my technical difficuties are over.

After several days of dealing with AOL, my original connection and IE is working again. Thank goodness!

I eventually fixed the problem by running ScanDIsk--something I thought *automatically* ran each time I turned on my computer, but I guess not...

Anyway, it found a bunch of problems and fixed 'em all. :)

Thanks so much for everyone's advice, especially Dave and Darien's help via RinkChat. *Darien* thank you for all your effort!!

Gr"aww...I love you guys.."ace