Pleeeease! Get rid of the overly and unnecessarily large " popup" ad banner on your (HNC) site. Almost every action on your site entails having to wait for the ad banner to load and often plays havoc with IE5+ browsers. The banner has become so intrusive and so aggravating, whatever is being advertised on the banner is totally ignored by me, and, most likely, by many others.

Last, it is my opinion that " popup" ads are the worst form of advertising yet invented and are counterproductive. Most Internet viewers hate " popups" and are conditioned to ignore such ad form, and immediately close the popup without reading any of the ad. Same as hanging up on telemarketers before the caller can tell you anything about what they are selling.