>>At least with my 5.5, that did not help...as soon as I clicked on a thread link in the upper window, all 3 windows were refreshed and all unread messages got zapped :)
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>I am lucky I still have IE 4.0 :)

Don't let me discourage you from IE5.0 or 5.01. Those are good upgrades, and they fix several fairly serious problems I had with IE4.

But 5.5 is really still in the alpha stage - there is a big, nasty caveat and disclaimer at the download point about it "not responsible for damages, recommended for professionals only", etc. :) But wow, is it fast - if they ever get the bugs out, watchout, major web performance breakthrough!