Well, the good news is that Excite@Home hasn’t crapped out just yet. The bad news is that it hangs like a spectre over my head, and I don’t know when I’ll be without internet from home.
Also, it just recently occurred to me that, while I have a modem and a valid Earthlink username, I deleted everything off my computer related to my old dial-up connection – including the program I had been using for said connection. Oops.