first, thanks guys for the internet tips. rip, i am a little afraid to be scrweing around with some of that stuff and deleting etc. guess i am not quite a daredevil. saki, i can't find the options menu!!! the closest thing that i have is communicator (on the same row as file, view,go, communicator, helP) and under communicator there is a history thingy but clearing that doesn't get rid of the address popping up everytime i hit [ invalid url http://www.a ] !!!!