So all my current Messenger contacts have to download not only an identity from AOL, but a program to use to talk to me? I don't think I'll be sending all my contacts a note to that effect; I'm not confident enough ANY of them will bother.
Thing that's really bugging me at the moment is being unable to import favourites/bookmarks. My network (Mac to modem, Dell as no 2 computer through switch) works in as much as both computers get the internet without problems, but neither can apparetnly see the other computer, so file/printer sharing is out of the question. I put my favourites folder on a memory stick and plugged it into the mac. I try to import favourites from there and it sees the file but everythiing in it remains resolutely greyed out.
If anybody has any ideas here I'd appreciate it, because I'm really not looking forward to typing out 200 odd urlss and adding them individually to bookmarks on the Mac.
I will be going wireless shortly as soon as i find out which hardware is best suited to the Mac, but it seems to me that if the two computers can't see each other with an ADSL modem/router, wireless isn't ging to make any difference, so it's a problem I need to sort out first.
Forgive all the typos in this, it's most unlike me; I haven't got used to the Mac keyboard yet eitther.
Edited to add that somehow, I have no idea how, both computers now appear to be grudgingly admitting the other's existence. If you tick enough boxes something happens. Still won't import favourites, but one piece of progress a day is all I can expect I suppose.