Thanks everyone. When I have time (and energy) I'll sort this out. Bill, I'm not really a technophobe, (think Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) but I really don't know enough to efficiently troubleshoot things. I checked some settings last night, and it appears that Firefox is configured correctly for my dialup speed. I also read that my firewall may be causing problems, but the troubleshooting for that was so involved (other than just turn it off - but in the past I had to uninstall it) that I just decided to wait for another day.

Foolestroupe, I agree with the idea of using different browsers...AND as I noticed last week...different screen resolutions. There are just too many possible bugs that I'm unaware of until I happen to see a page in a different browser or resolution. I never new Netscape wouldn't display a page if I forgot to close a table tag until I happened to talk to a Netscape user who couldn't see her page. I was also shocked at some huge table cells that didn't show up in smaller screen sizes, but were ugly at the larger screen size. Also, that loading sequence is very noticeable in my dialup, but few of my friends ever see it.