Rose: Do you have some privacy software or something installed that clears the cache or Cookies?

Or for example, in FireFox - Tools, Options - Privacy Tab - there is an option to "Always clear my private data when I close FireFox"..... make sure that is not checked.

Rose: Check your preferences (on Windows they are under the tools menu, I think. On Linux they're under the edit menu) -> Privacy. If there is a checkmark before "Always clear my private data when I exit Firefox", you might uncheck it, or click on Settings and uncheck "saved passwords" and "cookies". The former checked means that the passwords from the password manager are deleted, and the latter means that the information Brainking stores in a cookie, are also deleted. If you have checked "remember user name and password" on the login page, this information is stored in a cookie.

For the style switching: There are three links: "To simple style", "simple" and "castle". The latter two change the style but don't save it, only the first option saves it in the database.

Gordon Shumway& BBW:  I looked at the privacy tab on FF and the clear private data is not check boxed. I never had this problem before this week ( The only change I made this week was I installed Fasterfox so wonder if there is a correlation there?)
 Gordon you must mean in FF and IE, NOT windows to check the tools , privacy I am assuming. There is no tools, privacy with in WIndows XP tools area.

Rose: I have FasterFox installed on my computer at home, and if no one else answers before then, I will take a look at those settings and see if anything jumps out at me. Probable some kind of "performace" thing FasterFox does is clearing that data out - to help make firefox "faster".

When I loaded it at home, I played with the setting but did not find any difference... which is why I haven't loaded it on the computer that I'm using now.

But if FasterFox is the only change - most likely that is the cause of the problem.

BIG BAD WOLF: I have a feeling it could be that. Which is a shame as I do notice a bit more speed using it but I have so many usernames and passwords to use daily that this is a huge pain in the patootey having to enter them in every time I go to a site that requires em.

Rose: You could try to follow the instructions at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts instead of installing fasterfox, it works for me :)

Rose: I installed FasterFox and am not experiencing those problems.

Personally, I don't find FasterFox any faster, though. LOL.. Oh well..

Anyone: This may not be the board for this question, but maybe it is.. All of a sudden, in rich text editor, my scissors, copy and paste icons are dimmed out, as though they are not available to use. It's been like this for a few days now. Also, I have a special formatted good luck message that I have saved in notepad. It just has a couple smileys and colored letters. I used to just go to notepad, click edit on the entry, copy it, and paste it right into my game message. Ever since these icons have been "dimmed", when I copy the message, and then paste it (using ctrl+c, and ctrl+v since the appropriate icons aren't working), When it pastes, the smileys are there, but not moving, and when I submit the move, it shows up in the game as "<img> Good Luck <img>" (The letters are colored the way I wanted, but the smileys show up as <img>") Can anyone tell me why? It worked fine for quite a while, then suddenly changed. Have I changed something on my computer that might have caused this????

Rose: You're right, sorry. I was talking about the FF Preferences and where they are located inside FF on different operating systems. If you use FF in Windows, they are located in "tools", if you use it on Linux they're located in "edit".

And in the preferences the privacy settings are located.

But this all doesn't seem to be the issue anyway ;)