Also..I found out that a person I have on my 'friend list' from Yahoo messenger was hacked into a few days ago. But it was after I started having trouble.....so maybe was from me? I haven't asked anyone else on my 'list' yet, so I don't know if they have had trouble or not. I did d/l yahoo messenger finally last night...with no error messages about missing dll files..it went smooth as silk...LOL ???? hmmmmmmm ????