Maybe they're thinking up new ways to find "profits" in their accounting department. Even when positive news came out of AOL's quarterly report, their stock still plummetted -- apparently because the SEC had some lingering questions about the way AOL arrived at high positive figures for their yearly earnings...

In fact, this appears to be a standard practice for AOL. One observer points out that AOL's "new subscriber" figures include vast numbers of free-trial accounts -- and a technology correspondent at Ziff-Davis News concluded AOL may represent only the world's largest pyramid scheme!