Also, anybody who is getting an error – please check that your firewall isn't blocking the site.  I have been to many sites where I have to either add the site to my safe list or turn off the firewall completely while I'm in that site.   Firewalls these days are extremely aggressive and vista's legacy firewall is no exception to this. 

Hopefully this will help some folks.

connie

The problem is not limited to Vista or the version of Internet Explorer. I have three machines that were (as of this morning) running identically - Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7. After selecting (clicking), the page would begin to download and then abruptly stop with an error message that said (and I paraphrase) "Internet Explorer could not access http://tripawds.....com/forums....... Sometimes I could get by this error by reloading and then other times I was never able to load the page (after more than an hour in one case). Oddly, I tried using my backup laptop computer and did not get the error during the single session. Thinking that my operating system had been corrupted during a security update, I restored the operating system disk to April's state when I know that all was well. Nothing changed and the error messages continued.

I installed Internet Explorer 8 (which I do not like) this morning in hopes that this would fix the problem. The first time through, the results were nearly the same - only the error message and error message page changed but not the results. However, from that point on, I no longer get the error message, but I also do not get a proper page. Sometimes I will get the initial forum posting but not any additional postings. Sometimes I get a subset of the posting, i.e. the first two or three in addition to the initial posting. Most of the time, I finally do get the full page including the ability to post a reply but only after numerous attempt. For example, to get to this page where I can post my reply, I had to reload this page eleven times (and this was relatively few compared to other pages.)

I really hope that you will be able to fix this problem which I suspect is a result of "streamlining" the individual pages and delivery system. An hour a page is just too much time to spend download the single page forums so that I can intelegency add to the discussion, and as far as forums that have reached multiple pages - forget it!!!

Cherry's Dad

I know that you do not support AOL and while I prefer to use my broadband connection without AOL getting in the way, my most reliable way to access the site is to go through AOL. Internet Explorer 8 just was not allowing me into the sites. While I did get on without any error message, I actually saw the entire page approximately 5% of the time and had to keep reloading until I saw the entire page. Going back to Internet Explorer 7 did not help. However, going through AOL has proved productive. I get just one error message (shown in the image below) and when I select not to debug, the page is displayed completely. The error message is the same, including the line reference, regardless of the page I am displaying. Hope this helps.

Bob

During this morning’s session, I was getting the usual errors but have not gotten error messages during this session. Assuming that what ever caused this problem, THANKS FOR FIXING. (That assumes that it has been fixed, but with your expert knowledge and my optimism, that is an asumption I will gladly make.)

Thanks again, Bob & Cherry