[Mike McCarty]

For the past couple of months I, and others using AOL, have had a great deal of difficulty accessing Stroke of Genius related sites.

Today through a friend at the Kennedy Space Center, I was able to speak directly with AOL with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope. The following solution was offered to me:

From Windows desktop (I run XP) with all applications shut down -

* at the bottom right corner of the screen is a small AOL icon, right click.

* from the next window select "system information."

* from the next selection of folders select "utilities" at the top.

* from the middle of the next screen you will see "AOL ADAPTER."

* click the button which reads "UN-INSTALL ADAPTER."

* exit back to desk top and restart your computer.

When I tried to get an explanation as to what I had just done the lady could not make me understand. It may have something to do with the fact that she was speaking Farsi.

Anyway, I restarted my computer and successfully pulled up SOG. I'm still not fully convinced because the problem was always intermittent. Time will tell.