I use thunderbird on my machine at home. Recently, my access to the newsgroups has been degrading. At first it would prompt me for the login and password when the were supposedly saved. Now I just get a "item contains no data" message. If I close Tbird and reopen it, sometimes it gets better. If I try to open the password display from the Thunderbird preferences, the window opens for about a half second and closes. I believe the file which stores the passwords has been corrupted. Thus I cannot clean things up by the usual methods. I would prefer not to wipe out my whole profile and start over. Having to reenter the passwords and tell the system to remember them would not be so bad. Does anyone know what file has to be killed off to clean off all the passwords to a clean state? Thanks for any suggestions. Bob Styma Phoenix, Az