I then went to access my hotmail account (VIA pop) and low and behold, pop not working.
While I assumed it was the new cookie blocker... I just thought I would "follow the rules" and go to the MSN hotmail help site.
While I know they were not trying to be "funny" by alerting me to a cookie flaw and how to fix it that intern generated and security flaw that finally brought me to the originating help site that was "down".... This was a I.T. scream of a joke on me. You guys bust me up...