Barb...and did you bring your two favorite guys with you?....... Tom Selleck and Tom Cruise... ..if you didn't it's okay...we've all missed you so much we'll take you alone and without them...welcome back...Joan Hartman Yup.. that's right... it IS me... and nope... I haven't been out spending the past 3 months searching for pink flamingos! grin (newer List members, that's an "in joke") No sireeee... over the past 3 months or so, I've logged over 25 hours on the phone talking with Microsoft's tech support personnel, generally getting absolutely nowhere. Finally two MIS experts from mydaughter's company came over to me home and stripped down the 'puter to it's base bones. They worked on that darn machine until they identified the problem which was caused by MSN software that had been an alpha test program dating back to my employment with MSN. Anyway, there is no way to fix the problem short of changing software which I did a few days ago. So please note, m'friends, I'm back online and am able to access email once again. however, if you expect me to get any email ya might send me, my new email address is: [log in to unmask] It's good to "see" ya all once again. Barb Mallut [log in to unmask]