If you are using the America Online browser, you could have problems viewing this website correctly - Images could look blurry, blotchy, speckled, or appear with black bars on them...

The AOL browser is a modified version of Internet Explorer... The main modification is an setting which re-compresses the graphics on websites, before you receive them on your screen.

This over-compression destroys a lot of images, and unfortunately, it is the default setting.

This double-compression is unnecessary as graphics on most websites are already compressed and optimized for the best trade-off between speed and quality on all web-browsers...

To Turn Off AOL Compression...

AOL 7.0:
Choose the "Settings" drop down menu. Select "Preferences," then "Internet Properties (www)". Click on "Internet Options" in the left hand column, then "Web Graphics." Select "Never Compress Graphics.", "Apply," then click "OK."

AOL 5.0 & 6.0:


AOL 4.0:
Go to "My AOL", then to preferences, click on the "WWW" button, then from the box that comes up, choose the "Web Graphics" tab. Click on to UNCHECK the box for "use compressed graphics".

Then, you must clear your cache! or your browser will show you the website's pages from memory, not a fresh copy of the page. To clear your cache (memory) files from the AOL browser version 4: Go to the 'MyAOL' icon, preferences, advanced, purge cache.

AOL 3.0+:
Go to the AOL menu bar, click on: Members - Preferences - WWW (or Internet Properties) - Web Graphics tab - uncheck the "use compressed graphics" option and click OK. Then, you must clear your cache! or your browser will show you the website's pages from memory, not a fresh copy of the page.