I was having trouble with Netscape 4.7 all along - it kept corrupting e-dresses and doing weird things, mostly in the mail program - but i still liked it better than IE. Then along came an e-mail bearing the JScript.KatWorm as a signature file (so you don't have to open an attachment to get nailed), and to hell it went! I understand that if I had been using IE / Outlook, the worm would have infected my whole system, but NS is semi-resistant, and Norton 2K caught it in time to prevent serious problems or spreading. Unfortunately, either the worm or Norton or the battle between them boogered up my mail program badly and wiped out all of my "inbox" files. Rather than uninstall / reinstall the problematic NS Communicator 4.7, I decided to upgrade, and fool that I am succumbed to the temptation to play around on the edge, and downloaded a Beta version of NS Navigator 6 pre-release. This is what I'm presently using.... and it's, welll... "interesting". Definately takes some getting used to, does some weird things (I'm used to that with NS), but has intriguing potential. I like to push the envelope to see how crazy I can get before it crashes, and it seldom dissapoints me! I send my "feedback" reports in regularly, and the silly thing seems to be getting better as I use it; I wonder if they can "tweak" it via applets or something. Tonight I tried to get in to the HearMe room, which I have been doing with ease up 'till now, and it told me it needed a special Java V.2 plugin for NS 6, which i obligingly downloaded - but still no-go. Maybe it'll work after I shut down & reboot; we'll see. I am a little nervous about using anything associated with AOL, but I get the sense that they are repenting of at least some of their past transgressions of late after a blizzard of complaints and a few lawsuits, and are now more likely to write programs that act more like programs and less like mega-viruses. It's a little scary having to choose between MS and AOL; kind of like going to vote! I am in awe of you guys who build web pages out of HTML; I tried learning it once and just got thouroughly flummoxed. But for what it's worth; heres' one more Netscape surfer who has both an intuitive and learned aversion to IE. I have uninstalled and deleted "Outlook" completely!