Thank you, dear Fiddlstix.
I hope that helps, Spunky.
All of a sudden one day without ME doing anything my PINGS became accessible.
This all started when FreeRepublic went down during the beginning of the Freepathons. When it came back up was when I noticed all this. In the case of maybe browser problems, I would think if it was my browser I would have trouble with all the threads breaking up. It is only the Freepathon threads that are breaking up for me.
Jim, in one reply back to me you said "Computers do mysterious things" Hopefully ALL of FreeRepublic will mysteriously be accessible to me again.