>AOHell is just clueless. My gripe is that Basic Authentication is supposed to be a standard and it doesn't work with AOHell.

I agree with that gripe, and what's worse is if you taking a day and really dig thru their web development docs there is one measly article buried somewhere that offers the use of one their custom CGI functions as an alternative but about 9 months ago I wasnt able to make it work by checking version (IOW, I couldnt trap in regular javascript when it was an AOL browser as opposed to regular IE window).