Jill,

Might I suggest that you delete this newsgroup and then re-add it to TB?
Since many of us don't have the problems you seems to have (I just got
an update to TB before logging in here) perhaps the problem is with your
news server and not the newsreader. Who are you using as a news server?

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Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
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