[bubbletrouble]

Issue 1: Over the past several weeks/months, Yahoo Messenger seems to have gone out of sync with Yahoo Mail, and Yahoo Mail itself seems to be glitching.

It used to be that the moment I received a message, the notification would pop up in messenger. It still does, but only rarely. Now, one of three things happens.

1. it's gotten so that the notification only pops up an hour or more after the message was delivered.

2. it doesn't show up at all until I log off and log in to messenger again, then I find the message has been sitting in my inbox for a while.

3. yahoo messenger doesn't report that I have new messages at all, but when I go into my inbox I have messages waiting. This only happened once that I'm aware of and it was just this past Saturday. I had a message from the previous evening waiting, and one that had been delivered Thursday, but never showed up in Yahoo Messenger or my inbox until that moment, the Thursday message even showed up on the list in the proper order, between other messages I had previously read.

Is there anything I can do on my end to get things back in sync?

Webcam:

When I go to view my friends webcams, they start fine, but after a short while the image will either freeze or go black, though Yahoo will still say "receiving images". I see that the freezing is a known issue, but if anyone has a workaround other than using a different service, I'd appreciate hearing it.

Thanks for any insights you folks can provide.