Jan- I'm not sure why you would get the "image challenge" thing if you were already logged into your AOL account. It sounds as if you were being directed or challenged by Google's CAPTCHA program used by some websites (but I've never seen AOL use it) to verify that a real live PERSON and not a BOT was trying to send the messages. I DO understand that Google's CAPTCHA program was broken yesterday--I overheard the techies at RootsWeb mentioning that. So the problem could have actually been a Google issue that impinged on your AOL capabilities--but I'm not sure why. Joan In a message dated 10/3/2008 12:14:07 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I tried to send an e-mail - either in AOL's software or on their web site in Internet Explorer, a pop-up came up from AOL - called an "image challenge". <snip> **************New MapQuest Local shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. Try it out! (http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000001)