{So ICQ eats you're machine too eh? So why do we keep using it then? ;) } I don't anymore. It's been a piece of garbage ever since AOL QUIETLY bought them out about three years ago. The big irony THERE is that I had more conflicts between ICQ and the AOL software than between almost any two other programs (only Real Player gave me more trouble - both are now off of my system). AIM does 90% of the stuff that ICQ does, and half of THAT better, but there are still some functions that you just don't have ANYWHERE but ICQ.