Sometimes when you run completely "out of gas" and run the carb bowl dry, a small particle of grit, previously "barred" by the small opening afforded by the needle valve (under "full bowl" conditions).......will make its way into the carb bowl when the bowl begins to empty and the float drops (opening the needle valve wider than when bowl is full) as the fuel level drops. This particle (or particles) of grit might then make their way into the main jet, which can cause lean mix and surging. If the grit gets into a pilot jet, it might also induce some surging BUT the most obvious symptom of a clogged pilot jet would be that the engine will not idle at low RPM. With a clogged pilot jet, you might be able to get the engine to start and run at higher RPM (and it might surge), but when you tried to get it to idle at slow speed, you would reach an RPM (higher than normal idle RPM) where the engine would suddenly begin to stumble and then die like it ran out of gas. You may want to empty the carb fuel bowl (catch the contents in a clear, clean glass or jar so that you can examine what you pour out of the bowl). If you see some slugs of water (water can sometimes clog a pilot jet) you should spray some carb cleaner into all the holes and passages on/in the carb. If you see some gritty looking junk, you might have to disassemble the carb and probe the holes with wire and blow out with compressed air. As njdpo suggested, you may want to "add some dri-gas, or Methanol alcohol to disperse and transport the water out of the carb.

I've never seen anything like that and it seems unlikely flash or a web site would cause that, I watched the Monks Brother episode or something like that yesterday on that site an all was well.

My computer is set to clear cookies every time I close Firefox (don't know if that matters), and I have to close all programs to shut down the computer, or I get a prompt telling me which programs are still running, data might not be saved. If I close all the browser windows (sessions?), without turning off the computer, then open a new browser session, I still have to sign in again to each website, if I want to interact/view my account info. The bookmarks aren't affected, so no problems there, although one time I panicked when the bookmark order was scrambled. I don't what caused that, but when I closed that bookmarks/Library window and opened a new one, the usual order was restored. My late husband was my computer guru--I'm using his former work laptop now, and when I have a question, my kids never seem to be around. Thank you, DLM.

When I was expressing unhappiness a while ago about having lost it (and for quite a long time I hadn't realized its being there) ... ... someone told me to just hit the "Home" key ... so I learned something new, that day. I hadn't noticed it being back, earlier - but it is, now. When I'm looking at threads on another page, if I click on the "Back" button, top left for me on Internet Explorer, it takes me to that page, instead of having to scroll to the bottom and clicking on the page number that I was using. ole joyful