What an interesting day. I spent quite some time setting up the Mail program on the MacBook - now all my AOL mail from my various addresses goes into the Mail program, where it is very simple to access, respond, AND save without ever having to log on to AOL. The only downside is one cannot port over the AOL address book, although I gather there is third party software that enables you to do that. So far Mail is working very well and I'm very happy I finally did it - thanks to Jose.
You're welcome, bk.
As for a third party program, well... There are a couple of them out there. Just Google "AOL address book export". However, none of them are foolproof, and many of them require you to compose a mail message by filling the "To:" field with your address book, then saving that as a text file, then saving that as a spreadsheet/limited form...
Eh...
A semi-easier way is just to save an e-mail address into your Address Book whenever you receive an email. Although, bk, if you used "Constant Contact" you should already have a mailing list that you can save as a address book directory file.