Hi All: As some of you may have noticed, the Terms and Conditions mechanism associated with the NS Vitals Database has been driving me up a tree. The reason is that, to search for SLAUENWHITE's, I usually retrive them in groups; e.g., all people whose surname begins with SLAU and whose first name begins with W, who died in Halifax County, and then work down the list of people displayed. What had been happening is that, after viewing something like the third or fourth name on the list, when I hit the view button, the system would hang. Also, if I wanted to switch to, for example, all such persons whose first name began with S, I would have to start all over again, lest the query produce a bogus result. The only reasonable solution to this problem seemed to be to go back and start all over again, thus the necessity to accept the Terms and Conditions every five or ten minutes. But I have made a discovery. My default web browser is Firefox V2.0 and about four days ago, I decided to try an experiment. Instead of using Firefox, I switched to Internet Explorer, V7.0 for accessing the Vitals Database. Since that time, I have experienced the following: a. No retrievals have hung b. I can go for long periods of time and not have to go back and start all over again c. Switching names in queries does not cause me to have to restart d. I have seen no bogus results Now it's possible that either I am hallucinating, or there is some other factor at work here that I cannot fathom. But switching from Firefox V2.0 to IE V7.0 seems to have solved most of the problems I was experiencing. PS. I know nothing of Firefox and IE internals, but if I had to guess, it would be that the root of the problems have to do with the way Firefox handles a secure connection. -----Bob H-----