Now THAT'S the error message (an apparently common issue) I got on my old laptop with XP and AOL 9.0 SE. It seems to be a corruption of a file (possibly unrelated to ANYTHING you clicked). Someone on this list recently posted about this and said that AOL phone tech support was able to talk them through a lengthy solution. Joan In a message dated 2/2/2010 12:37:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, Merrittrfl@aol.com writes: Hi all This morning I decided to do some clean-up of my computer and having seen one of the latest messages on this board pertaining to AOL adaptor I went to the one click fixes and clicked on "Rebuild AOL adaptor". I think that's when my problems began. I also used a couple of the other one click fixes but having used them in the past with no problems I don't think that's why my problems began. Now when starting or restarting I get the message "AOL ERROR. An error occurred while loading a file. AOL will attempt to restore the file". I've lost access to "new mail" and "mail waiting to be sent". I can read old mail and sent mail but only sporadically. The only way I can read new mail is to use IE. All my favorites have disappeared. The customized tool bar is now showing the icons from the person who shares this computer with me. She has not lost any of her favorites and can still has access to her new mail. I have AOL 9.0 optimized Revision 4148.5132. Windows XP. Not sure what else is needed for help. I've never used "restore" but is that what I should do? Is it possible to restore to yesterday's date? Sorry I'm a bit (to put it mildly) computer illiterate. Anyone else having these problems? Sandy Colorado