>I have type 6 times now the funky graphic letters for security access on my google account, but they are so freaking hard to read I haven't gotten them right yet. I guess that's a good thing, but should they be that hard to read?

According to article http://securitylabs.websense.com/content/Blogs/2919.aspx, the Google CAPTCHA has been broken by hackers with 20% success.