To turn off compression of graphics in AOL: Just hit the "prefs" button on your browser, and click the last tab of the window that pops up. Uncheck the box there that says graphics compression - then clear your cache and reload the page.

WHY?

"The AOL web browser is a version of MSIE. It is a version that has been modified in ways, and one of the ways is that it "compresses" graphics to an .ART format so that they will load marginally faster. The problem is that this compression happens by default (you can turn it off but people seldom do because they see no reason not to, or they don't even know about it), and when you save images off web pages in the AOL browser, they STAY IN THE .ART FORMAT - even if they are named with .gif or .jpg extensions. This is further complicated by the fact that there is just about no paint program out there that will convert graphics FROM .ART format back into .gif or .jpg. I personally do not know of any.
AOL users DO NOT EVEN KNOW these graphics are in the wrong format though, because when they put them up on their pages, their OWN AOL BROWSERS see them correctly. However, they show up broken to the ENTIRE REST OF THE INTERNET!
I think it's of great importance to get this information out, so that AOL users who intend to save images off of the internet for ANY USE AT ALL, will be able to turn off compression of graphics so that the images will be in the correct format.
To turn off compression of graphics: Just hit the "prefs" button on your browser, and click the last tab of the window that pops up. Uncheck the box there that says graphics compression - then clear your cache and reload the page.
Thanks to Charlie of the Graphics Ring for forwarding this information."