Richard,
You run Outlook as your email but you don't want XP as your operating system? We're the opposite--I had it with ME and those earlier systems. But I never used Outlook until one day when I was short a resident email program to test out my G-mail and I set it up just to try it. I'm probably going to set up Eudora to work two addresses instead of leaving Outlook in use.

There are several Google ads right now addressing Outlook problems. And thanks John, for the link. I'll go read up on Spybot. I was planning to put it back in again, but hadn't done any poking around for information about that incompatibility yet.

SRS