I had a look at your HERE tips, thanks. I guess what sent up a red flag for me was the unexpected crash I experienced noted above and that I was no longer auto logged in to many sites AND that O.E. was asking for my passwords again. So I thought some virus had gone and did an erase.

I checked my Microsoft password protected file in Win98 and all seemed to be there. At any rate I deleted a lot of obsolete passwords and reinitialized my current email accounts with new passwords. Things are back to normal again.

Thanks again.

*Edit: It seems that clearing out a lot of “junk” from the registry section that stores protected passwords has re-auto logged me back into some forum sites. Perhaps it was just a registry thing.