Well, she isn't alone in having forum problems.

I've had several problems in the past with both 
ie5.5 and various versions of netscape, on both 
windows 98 and redhat linux, loading the forum. 
It likes to come up as a blank page, although it 
has downloaded, and several times the tables will 
weirdly space themselves so the blue section 
takes up the entire screen. 

I'm on a t-1, and the page takes forever to load. 
It might have to do with the ads servers having 
issues, I really don't know for sure from this 
end. I do know that many of the ads that appear 
or pop-up tend to give errors.


One last thing, here are some ActiveX info pages 
on pop-ups

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/officedev/odeopg
/deconworkingwithhtmlhelpactivexcontrol.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/w
kshp/pop.htm

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/w
kshp/ocx_scripts_popup.htm

There's a ton of other info on microsoft's site, 
and there a ton more to be found in many 
different types of books, the one I use the most 
is for dynamic html.

Hope this helps a bit,

Karen