My wife and I have two separate accounts with Sbcglobal.net (Prodigy), using Netscape 7.2. The OS is XP Pro, but the problem below was the same in 95 and 98.   It also happened when we had earlier versions of Netscape.

Her account uses Yahoo as her home page. Mine uses Mudcat (what else?).

Normally there's no problem getting out of one of our accounts, clicking Netscape, and choosing the other account to run. However, every so often accessing Netscape from the Desktop takes us immediately into one of the two acounts, without giving the choice of accounts to be clicked. This may happen say once a week, or sometimes more frequently. I don't see a difference in frequency of this happening related to one or the other of the two accounts. As far as I have been able to determine, the only way to restore the ability to choose which account to activate is "the big red switch" strategy: Reboot. After reboot, we get the choice, defaulting to the account most recently used.

Since we know what to do to escape lockup, this problem is not huge, but it's "a pain in the patootie" because of the long closeout and reboot time.

Does anyone understand this problem and what to do to avoid locking into one of our two accounts?

Dave Oesterreich