On 24/5/04 10:09 PM, Robert Howells wrote:

> Heh Neil,. before you do that try cleaning out
> 
> preferences -> receiving files-> Cookies
> 
> delete them all and start again
> 
> Bob
> On Monday, May 24, 2004, at 09:54  PM, Neil Blake & Associates wrote:
> 
>> Hi all
>> 
>> Thanks to those who responded to my message about the curious internet
>> dropouts my Mac has been suffering lately.  I have quite by accident
>> discovered that the problem seems to be caused by my Favourites being
>> corrupted - not sure why - or how to fix it.  When I enter a URL
>> manually it
>> works fine!  Guess I'll have to clean out the favourites and start
>> again....

Thanks for the suggestion Bob - but no joy.  The URL gets to a certain point
during loading from favourites before the spinning beach ball kicks in.

Any other thoughts anyone?

Cheers

Neil