David

>
> ah, ok. I'm still suspicious of any "full" installs of yahoo
> messenger. that's the first thing i would suspect that caused an
> issue with the install.
> Dave
I should add that i had two different versions of messenger installs go
bad when i neglected to delete the extras from the installation
procedure. Uninstalling the programs thru windows (XP) add/remove
progs, followed by a custom install of yahoo messenger w/o extras got me
up and running both last year and this year during their roll outs of
various versions. I would expect that chances are you'll get it to work
now on your Vista laptop if you remove all the yahoo stuff you find on
your pc and start fresh with the current version, doing a bare bones
messenger install. skip the toolbar and other stuff they include with
the messenger download.