Thanks BB for your replies.... and i already tried swithcing to classic start menu and same results... still pops up, oh well!

Same thing here too on my hotmail accnts - it laughed at me, told me My Momma and said go back to Win2k if you want anything
to work correctly, Bwahahaahaa

I will do the Office install and try to get my mail configured
thru that Outlook versio - I really hate having to use that overkill
version of Outlook, but i guess i don't have any options.

I use Web2Pop for my Yahoo accnts & Hotmail accnts but i'm striking out
left and right - So i will do the upgrade from Office.

Appreciate your words of wisdom BB,
Jackpot