I have AOL. To use the internet I start up AOL software then connect, I then start IE 4 and thats how i use the net, since youve been talking about all this stuff I ran tracert.exe, i go through a total of 6 aol connections (ill call them connections since i don't really know), 2 of which have proxy in the name, i never use aol's integrated browser, which is basically IE with AOL slaped on it inside the aol window.