Thanks again. Seems I’m the only person who is having this problem and ironically enough, I’ve had it on two pc’s. I doubt it’s a bad install because I’ve installed and deleted the program 5 times on two different systems. I have no idea how much memory is on the systems. And have no idea where to look for that info. Gosh I miss having an IT dept! Probably the minimum amount that comes with a low end Dell and eMachine. Then again, I’m able to run Photoshop which is pretty memory intensive and it doesn’t crash. I really do think the problem happens when I switch between User ID’s. If I stay with one ID it ran smoothly. There’s no error message, it just stops responding. Could it be related to Cookies? Is that a remote possibility? The other day the drop down menus stopped working in Yahoo mail, I deleted the cookies and the problem stopped. If I could only delete cookies from my diet! lol Thanks again for your help.

I very much appreciate your efforts but you’re offering solutions to problems that I don’t have. I guess as long as I stick with the older version of Messenger I’ll be fine. I’m just speculating that one day, I’ll have to upgrade.. eventually old versions become obsolete. Ah.. maybe that’s where you misunderstood me! I get it now! What I meant by “forced” to upgrade.. wasn’t actually forced.. just a matter of .. well.. for example.. we’re no longer running Netscape Navigator 2.0.. it just becomes no longer viable. Guess that was a bad choice of language on my part.

Oh yes.. reinstalled 4 times. And this problem is occuring on both my home and work pcs. Someone on a different forum suggested it was a memory problem. And the solution was to revert to using the previous version of Messenger. I have.. and the problem is gone. However.. eventually.. Yahoo will force me to keep current with upgrades.. right? So what then? And.. I’m not sure if Yahoo hosts any forums where I can ask them directly.