First thanks to Alan, but especially thanks to Nancy for being so patient with me and answering all my questions and trying so hard to work with me. Here is what happened. Along with the flaky CD strip my AOL went haywire. (I did not think this was a lister type problem so did not ask about it) When I clicked on AOL it would start to initialize and I would get a message "the Application AOL has unexpectedly quit because an error of type 1 occurred. Save your work and (Recycle) (OK). Recycling did not help. I called AOL and got a person in India to help me. We trashed a bunch of things, restarted, and AOL worked. Only one time. Later, when I tried to sign on instead of clicking (Recycle) I clicked (OK) and then the AOL Icon, got the error message. So I kept on clicking, (OK) - AOL icon, about 7 to 10 times, and suddenly AOL would initialize. Then instead of Quitting AOL, I just Signed Off and this leaves the "Sign In Picture" on my desk top ready for me to sign in again. This was OK, except when I got a freeze, etc., and had to sign in again. So I would go through the (OK) clicking thing again and again. I called up AOL again and got another person in India (AOL's Nickel). He talked me through a lot of the same things the other guy did with no help. So we trashed AOL and reinstalled. Hey, it worked, but only one time. I wrote AOL an E-mail and it was promptly answered with many things to try, most of which I had already accomplished. I did all the other things, no help. The last thing was to check for conflicts, that I was reluctant to try at this time as I was able to get on line with the 7 to 10 clicking method. Still with me? Next I tried a web site that played music. No music would play. I had this before I got the bilking "?" that started all my problems. I had the correct Quick Time Plugins, or so I thought. I investigated and found the plugins were old ones. I went to my Quick Time folder to up date them but nothing happened. I remember reading somewhere to start up with the extensions disabled, and I tried again. And the Quick Time Up date worked. I had to restart and noticed that there were a few less icons along the bottom of my deck top when the computer started up. Something is going on! OK, so I started AOL and it worked like a charm. I went to the music web site and it worked great. AOL worked each and every time. So I went ahead and installed the CDstrip icon back in the CD strip module and restarted and everything came up as it was supposed to. It looks like I must have had a conflict all along and the AOL guy who tried to get me to isolate it was right. I never isolated it, just corrected it by dumb luck. I wish I knew what it was, but I do not way to push my luck. So now I can go to other things. Whew--thanks again all,
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