Wow. David! Thats way cool. I dont need a 27" screen, but having a screen that you dont need to be RIGHT in front of to be able to see it will be SO nice! Prepare to be jealous! But, actually, its not gonna happen for a few weeks probably. I seem to be in the midst of another one of my who-but-me type catastrophes right now. When I got back from my last trip on the 26th, something seemed to be going "wrong" with my face! I thought there was a possibility I could be having a stroke or a TIA and started sorta freaking out, so I went to the ER and it turned out I had something called Bells Palsy! By the next day the left side of my face was totally paralyzed! For a couple weeks I was preparing to live the rest of my life as a recluse! But its getting better enough by now that I even look like a human being again! Glad I wont have to be a recluse! Anyway, Im still having some problems, and not quite prepared to go to Apple for a one-on-one for the show and tell before I buy it. But when I doits one with that cool new screen for sure! I know theyre expensive, but it doesnt make any sense to keep buying new ones (the Dell wasnt cheap!) and then throwing them out in 4 or 5 years! And Im anxious to check out their photo stuff, but I dont know for sure if Ill switch to that. Ill definitely try it, but I like Picasa pretty well, and even bought more storage for their web albums so I could download all my (700+) vacation pics from this year! (Yeah! I went back to that Lions, and Tigers, and Bears place again this year!) I also plan to buy the one to one in-store help, and plan to make full use of the Genius Bar when I need it. After trying to get help with this one, and the first HP one, and getting the message when you try to call: Well be glad to help you! Thatll be $1487.59 for the first five minutes please! It will be SO nice to walk in and say: What do I do now? when I cant figure something out or have a problem! And I can hardly wait! Oh! And there IS an Apple store up herejust down 120th from me! VERY convenient! Can you tell me if they have a word processing program that comes with it or can be bought separately? The equivalent of Word? Is that what the iWorks is? I have OpenOffice (and Word) in this computer, and compared to Word, I really dont like itbut it IS free! I WILL be getting one! Drool on! Digit, sorry to hijack your thread! Lets see! Could you possibly recommend the right kind of fertilizer that might help keep the computer I have now going for a little bit longer??? Ya think maybe some nitrogen? It sure needs SOMETHING! How about some water? A little compost? Hmmm! Maybe I should just add it directly to the compost pile!!! Skybird

Zep, I downloaded Windows Live again and all the other programs that were listed there. Now everything is working again as it should. Maybe my Windows Live program got corrupted some how and that caused the problem I was having. Thank you. Kudzu9, Photo E-mail re-sized the photographs to thumbnails (230mb) prior to sending but they still never left my computer for whatever reason? That has cleared up now with Zep's linked and downloaded programs. Ravencajun, It must have been too early for me this morning when I sent in my question. I should have said, Drag and Drop, not Copy and Paste, sorry about that. Thank you all for your responses and help. "Horton"

Terry - that was great - thanks. It completely did what I wanted to achieve. I can easily see if I've gotten new email on my other account without switching software, etc Now a new problem occurred yesterday - before I made those changes - and I have no idea what I may have done to cause it. probably something I did in experimenting with all these different email issues. I had my firefox set up to send links in emails (from my AOL address). But now I'm trying to send my mother a link (for the emergency microsoft update from 2 days ago) - and when I'm in Firefox (and the computer forum thread is open - or any web page is open) - and I go to File - then click send link - it brings up an email form (with my screen name in AOL as the sender - so that party's working) - but a whole mishigosh of info (the link info, perhaps) appears in the space where I should be entering the email address I'm sending it to. I have no idea why that is happening. If I cut and paste that info into the body of the email - and send it to myself to test it - it doesn't appear to be a link to get me to the webpage I want). Seems to me that the webpage link should be referred to in the subject line - and supplied in the body of the email - not some mess of information occuring in the send to line. I tried going to FF tools - applications- and mail to . I have several options to choose from - use AOL software (this appears twice - once with the AOL triangle with "default" in parentheses and once with what looks like a mail page form), and once it says use AOL mail. I think I've tried all three and it still doesn't work. And before I started trying to change my email settings this week, I think there was only 1 or 2 AOL options for mail application in Firefox. Okay - so now I checked all three. On use AOL mail, it gives me the gibberish (somehow related to the webpage I'm trying to send a link for) in the to: line. If I choose use AOL software (default) - with the mail form logo - it goes to AOL software - sets up the email correctly with the information about the link in the subject line - and the to: field blank for me to fill in the recipient. But it wants me to sign on or the send button is faded and I can't click it. If I choose use AOL software (with the AOL logo - not the email logo), it takes me to the AOL software page and says this file may not be supported by AOL. AOL will try to send it as a text file (and if I choose to try, it will tell me the file is too big). So I do I email somebody links? Thanks. Lynn.

Pam you say: "After I enter the incoming (imap@aol.com)and outgoing (smtp@aol.com)mail" Replace the @ with a dot (period) I have mistakenly done the same thing myself while studying the "how to do it" instructions! Colin