"There might also be a timing factor - if she does quick trips elsewhere but spends more time at the 'cat, or the reverse. Some providers will kick you back to a sort of "standby" if you're inactive for a while, making it necessary, in effect, to re-connect when you do the next click."

Quite right, John - I open Mudcat & my mail & answer mail between reading mudcat. Then I look at Annex & mayeb a few other sites, but spend the majority ofg my time on Mudcat each night.

I've had a busy day & have to leave early (it's nearly 5pm here) so have not spoken to my techo workmate. I'll contact my techo friend tonight & see if he can visit & look at it.

Regarding the "pagead" address which I noticed very recently, I was wondering if it came from a geocities site I visited on Sunday morning. It had a nasty popup ad for posters & also provoked Netscape to open a window saying something about updating my Privacy protection.

gotta go,it's alost 5pm

sandra