Heidi,
I was hoping that you would show up. I use AOL for everything, I have a "favorites" section that holds all of the sites which I routinely visit. Within this section I have saved the SOG forum. So I pull down my favorite list and "click" on SOG forum, which is of course
http://forum.portraitartist.com/.
During the course of the day I probably visit the forum a half dozen times. My success in actually getting in is not predictable in any way. A few days ago I went about two and a half days with complete success but then it went back to hit and mis.
From what I can tell it is specific to AOL, I know that Chris S. and Stephen S. have had similar troubles. I have AOL clients that have never been to the forum (I hope) but have had trouble getting to my SOG web site.