<p>thanks for the suggestions. she is running vista home premium 64 bit.</p>
<p>I tried editing my hosts file on my machine (xp pro) as a test, and I found that the edit did not persist. I discovered that the attributes of the file and the etc folder was READ ONLY, so unset that setting, but my change did not take.</p>
<p>I’d rather not unset all folders in my windows folder since I do not want to upset the boot too much.</p>
<p>I believe I am the administrator.</p>