Kendall...you need to NOT 'click on the envelope'...that little icon is 'associated' with OE....that is, your computer thinks you want ALL mail to be opened with it. You need to open your mail DIRECTLY with some other program....that is, set up another program, tell it who you are and where your mail comes from (basically the same 'settings' as in OE) and then click on an icon for THAT new program and never let OE know anything is going on!

You said you downloaded "Mozilla & Firefox", but those are browsers, not primary email programs...though, I guess Mozilla 'will' do mail. (Firefox won't)..if you wan't to try Mozilla for mail, you'll have to poke about and find where the settings are.

You really need a totally separate program just for email (like OE is)...that would be Eudora, Thunderbird (made BY the Mozilla team), Pegasus(kinda complicated) or one of several others.