Thanks for all the feedback. I need something - my son wouldn't let me on here until now and I'll get about a 15 minute stint on here. rolleyes

I called my phone co. Verizon and they don't have DSL into our new neighborhood yet. So no DSL for awhile. The consensus opinions of computer store salespeople was that of the big servers Earthlink is the best way to go. The cheaper local servers are OK but they too often get bought out by bigger companies and you have to change everything around.

But ... what I found out is that since my son is on a 3 year contract with MSN (part of a $400 rebate deal at Best Buy for his computer) that we can get the new MSN 7.0 CD to download on both our computers and I can then network the 2 'puters so I get MSN for free. We have to go back to using both our phone lines when we both are online though. But free is a good price. They said the new software has less probs, and we will try those tricks like the refresh thing. I hope to get it done this weekend. Thanks again. - Steve