I tried all of the F keys to no avail, I also tried different mail servers (mail.microsoft.com, smtp.comcast.net, outgoing.verizon.net) and still get the same results. Now this is what is really weird, I hooked up an external keyboard, and it works fine......LOL. I am going to try and ixnay the keyboard drivers for the laptop, if that does not work, I will remove and reseat the ribbon cable for the laptop keyboard (I work on compaq notebooks all of the time and have noticed if you reseat the ribbon cable for the keyboard problems go away , especially if you have a keyboard with a point stick in the middle of it......). If that does not work, I made an image of my notebook after I installed all of the drivers and programs to it, and will go that route. Also I can go back and use the restore cd's.....LOL. But please if you have any other ideas let me know, I appreciate everybodies help on this....

Thanx!!!!