[quote]Originally posted by flyboy747:
<strong>I always assumed that the profile wasn't stored on the hard drive. I may be missing something, but if the profile is stored on the hard drive of the machine the account was originally created on, wouldn't the profile be inaccessable if the user signed onto another computer in a different location?
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You're right. It is stored on AOL's network, just like your buddy list is now.

They did this so you can access AOLIM though other computers without having to re-do everyhting every time.