Well, I just went through this LONG ordeal with AOL help.....I had to unload the whole AOL thing on my computer. Then do some kind of SCAN correction (which took 1 hour), then do a DEFRAGMENTATION to my disk......I was scared stiff. In the meantime, I LOST my whole backup messages on the filecabinet. I had addresses stored for a year, so I could send back to folks. Now I'm lost in that respect. Glad you messaged back....Hope I'm still in the groups...... I am just now going to try the kyseeker file to see if it worked......if not, I've wasted about 2 hours......yipes. thanks for keeping in touch. I'll message you again later.. Wilayne