Thinkpad running Windows 2000 Pro.
When composing an email I start to manually type in an email address.
I type a couple or three characters when suddenly the cursor jumps
down to the message body area. Thus I type an email address like
myfriend@nowhere.com into the Send To box, and the first two or three
characters are fine, but the remaining characters end up in the
message body area. This has happened on two different Thinkpads, both
running W2K.

I need a fix for this problem.

Thanks.

If when you click back on the "send to" line and the curser then
remains there, then the problem is simply that the page hadn't
finished loading when you started typing.  I have that problem fairly
often too (at other sites), and it is annoying but I don't think there
is anything that can be done to fix it.

Thanks for your comment.

No, that's not what's happening. I tried again today, over and over
again. Same problem. Curiously, if I extract an email address from my
addressbook, rather than trying to enter the address manually, it
works fine. I'm wondering if it might be a Windows 2000 Pro issue.
This has happened on two Thinkpads I use, both are running W2K.

AOL Tech support has no clue.

Do you find the cursor jumping at other times?  Does the laptop have a
touchpad?  Until I found the setting to "turn touchpad off when
typing" in Control Panel, Mouse I was forever jumping down the screen
unexpectedly.  Perhaps not your problem though as I think ThinkPads
don't have touchpads and it seems to occur specifically in one
application.  The other possibility is some kind of shortcut key to
take you to the message body in that application that you are
accidentally hitting.