why cant i veiw anothers profile before adding them.?...it used to work?

Your firewall is blocking your ability to open that window. Check your settings to make sure you can do this process.

This is how u can do.

Type in the address bar http://profiles.yahoo.com/abcd where abcd is the user id. U will be able to find the person's profile available with yahoo.

http://members.yahoo.com/

Please click the above link. There u will find "Find People" There u will find a search box. Click the arrow of the box, out of drop down menu selcet yahoo ID, enter the yahoo id in the search box , click Find People now. Yahoo will display the info about that person whatever has been provided to yahoo.

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&p=f...

http://alumni.net/

http://www.batchmates.com/

http://namesdatabase.com/

http://registration.classmates.com/registration/;j...

Please click the above links. It will also help u.

i cant veiw anyone profile on my buddie list

You can try looking them up in the members directory...it works sometimes:

http://members.yahoo.com/

well yahoo have provided a better services and more privacy,dats why