In addition, I've emailed AOL about the problem, which seems to arise on their end, and which, hopefully, they will fix.
Good luck with that, but I hope you are not holding your breath waiting for it to happen.
Nope, I'm not, but it's totally irresponsible of AOL; they've got to have people screaming on both sides of the Atlantic.
At any rate, Russell was able to get me past his gauntlet, and we're back in business.