Same here--I hide them also--but you can't hide the ones on the confirmation that your email has been sent -- and I had the looping occur on one of those as well as the buried ads. Sometimes, if you wait it out AOL begins responding again--but other times it doesn't. Joan In a message dated 8/20/2008 11:48:11 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Thanks Joan for your reply to my question about typing the non-responding thing. I don't see those looping ads because I have them buried. When AOL first started doing those ads I learned on here how to hide them. They were driving me NUTS! Judy **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)