This is a follow up to a previous thread. I have found that yes AOL 8 does work properly when the Windows XP Pro client is not running through the ISA server. In the process of troubleshooting I have discovered that the firewall client is required to sign into AOL but that after signing in if you disable the firewall client then the features that were not available are now available and the rest of AOL works too. So I have a work around for now but I would really like to find a better solution than having the user enable and disable the firewall client. The features that don't work with the firewall client enabled are: internet, buddy list, and address book I still don't know why the firewall client is preventing these things or how to fix it. Any ideas for me? thanks, Amy