But okay -- I'm enough of a geek to know what to do about *that*. Time to disable the AOL toolbar, and only let it out of its cage when I actually need it. (No, I can't uninstall it: since I'm responsible for *our* IE plugin, I need to have all the others around so that I can debug bad interactions. But if AOL isn't going to play nice with others, they can damned well sit in the corner the rest of the time.)
Is it just me, or has AOL gotten more annoying and antisocial lately? They now open up a full-scale browser (a customized and locked-down version of IE) when you open AIM, which takes a *ton* of screen real estate, and I can't figure out how to turn the damned thing off. Having to keep an eye on the competitors is getting to be more and more of a pain in the butt...