actually, for some reason I'm using MSN hotmail. the initial welcome page is windows live but once i'm in it's MSN hotmail... I don't know how long it will take to switch back to MSN live, if it ever wil. but right now I can send attachments and all of that... I still had trouble with navigating in windows live as wel... and yes, you couldn't read the body of the message to my knowledge, or at least you couldn't go into forms mode and read/edit it. and then there was the mess of trying to work with the pictures... which wouldn't accept my entries right away. hope this helps anyway... Patricia e-mail: bcsarah.fan@xxxxxxxxx msn: bc_sarah_fan@xxxxxxxxxxx