Thanks for the info; I suspected that they were cumulative. And, the 3 times in each row are just 3 separate attempts then?

Opera v6.05, and Win2K V5.0, service pack 4 or thereabouts; still can't see it mattering, though.

Things were running quite well for several weeks, and then went to pot some days ago. Seems like often it's hanging up in between the text and the various images, i.e. pressing stop often gives me the text, but not images such as "New", etc. But it also often doesn't load at all. Every other place that I go to gives me no problems.

I more or less can't get through at all via "normal channels"; I'm getting in via anonymizer instead, which is why I think it to be a routing issue.

David