Hi Guitta, have you changed anything last night? This morning (7.30 a.m. german time) your site builds up a lot faster AND the "loading image" message comes up. So probably all the phenomens have to do with traffic. Loading and accessing the applet, that could take time when there is a lot happening in the Net. One question to let me understand. What is the benefit of using an applet for navigation? But here the details of my system. Mac OS X 10.1.5, Internet Explorer 5.2.2 (the newest version on the Mac), DSL connection. Hope that helps, Walther

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