Unfortunately, the browser within the AOL window is also Internet Explorer - or at least it is if you have AOL 7 (and quite a few other versions of AOL, as I understand it).
Yes, indeed!
I dropped AOL when we got Broadband - only because AOL wouldn't allow us to operate a Network at that time - but I remember AOL 7 well! It did used to let me open other Browser windows though, IE6, Firefox and Opera, once I had the connection established and the AOL browser open.
However, I note from the Shareholders' Meeting a couple of days ago that BA will shortly roll out a newer, less user-hostile web-site!!!