Leeneia, as I indicated all along, I am and have been on XP Pro. Haven't been on 98 for maybe four years.

Relating to my son, he was released from the hospital today (HOORAY!), and is now in residence at the nursing home near our house where he's worked for ten years. Getting a lot of special attention, of course, because he's "family" there. He's still weak, after over a month motionless in bed. He's still on blood thinner, for the blood clots that are/were in both lungs. He'll probably be there for one to two weeks before coming home.

JohnInKansas: I get this behavior going for target sites as various as money.netscape.com, IMCPL.COM (the Indianapolis public library), Eclipsecat.com, exfolk.com, paltalk.com, and a number of others, all of which are regulars for me. To my knowledge, I have never typed "Real.Com" into that input box, before this stuff started, so not only do the other sites begin differently, but there would be no occasion for the browser to fill in Real.Com, because there was no history of that URL available there. There could not have been "some resemblance" to cause a fill-in. In addition, I don't remember for sure, but I tend to think that I've not had this happen when I actually typed the URL into the window; only (I think) when I clicked a URL on the historical list. If that conflicts with something I've said at some point in this thread, so be it, but I think that's right.

Unless, of course, it was referring to the numerical web addresses underlying the alphabetic URLs. It seems extremely unlikely that there would be any resemblance in those numbers, with that diverse a group of original targets.

Dave Oesterreich