interesting you should say this. prior to subscribing to cable internet i used aol for a couple of week as a free trial. aol seem to be very intrusive to the extent of even changing the banner at the top of my browser screen to 'microsof internet explorer provided by aol'. this has stayed on even after re-installing my windows 2000 operating system. and it appears that bits of aol are still left in my browser! my cable people have said to me that they have a standing issue with aol as even themselves, i.e the cable operatiors, do not know wher aol keep some files.