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Is the DSL PPPOE or DHCP? Not sure if that makes any difference* at this point, sounds like a flaky router.
replace it for under $25 (under $10 if you do rebates) and see if that helps.
Anyway I don't think this is a problem due to AOL.
but rebuilding the adaptors/drivers only takes a couple minutes, replacing the router a few dollars. Then you might consider replacing the NIC/PCMCIA card as well

*AOL's broadband connection protocol uses an L2TP tunnel which sets up 2 virtual adaptors each with its own MAC address, think of it as a custom VPN that runs through the physical adaptor.
In order to make it "one size fits all" for various Broadband methods here and abroad as well as satellite they went with an RWIN of 1400/MTU1392 and some other custom settings/restrictions added to the windows registry to assure it was reapplied at each boot/reboot.
this was fine for AOL users (though a little slow) and mostly worked with other browsers/providers, but if a conflict happened only removing and rebuilding all network components (from the network control panel) worked.