Good afternoon all......
Guess we can close this thread

. I was having so much trouble with system resources, freezes and lags I went absolutely nuts
Darrell finally took pity on me and wiped my hard drive. We installed XP and seem to have eliminated just about all my problems.
The only trouble that remained was playing games on Pogo. Apparently when Sun Java updated, it created more trouble than it solved. We uninstalled the 1.5 update and installed the 1.4-something previous version and now all seems to run smooth.
I still have my AOL,but can access everything from there with few aggravations.
sincerest thanks to all and your expertise for trying to help.
See y'all in the XP forums......
prayers and blessings..........Beth