hey Dermot,
Yes the browser opens and connects fine, but im taken to mail.yahoo.com`s log in dialog instead of being taken straight in to the inbox.. normally when you use messenger to take you to Yahoo mail, it opens your browser and takes you to something like us.f330.mail.yahoo.com/ym/login? which puts you right in your inbox..strangly enough this stopped happening after years of doing it this way.. I did infact toggle this option on and off in messenger, restarted messenger and the computer even though this is occuring on more than one computer..I do also have the latest messenger..i have pretty much decided that this is a bug in messenger that effects only a few people that i know of..
thanks for the reply