Hi Suzan,
Thanks for answering. Their toolbar has something to do with their site. Like if you are on a certain page and you like it, you click a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" if you don't. That click sends it back to their site to let other folks know if you've found an interesting, or boring, site. It's a way of voting, I guess. If enough people are interested, they then come over themselves and read whatever the page says. It's something like that. but just the fact of it being a toolbar gives me the willies...
MM