LOL and one more thing ... I suck at spelling but at the moment outlook
express is my only news reader .. can anyone tell me how I can get it to
update it's spell checker .. I just tried to run it on this message and
the word 'run' wasn't in the dictionary .. lol

Kind of figured out this problem .. for some reason my dictionary for
outlook express is French even though this is a US copy of WinXP and all my
language settings are set to English. The only option in the spell check is
for French... Guess I'm going to have to add the English language pack to
resolve this problem.