We may be getting somewhere here. There was a suggestion about this a while back (true) that bits are bits, and image files don't "degrade" by copying them the way an analog photocopy would. But the bits have to be interpreted correctly to recreate the image, and that's the job of the viewer program. I'm not an expert on image compression formats, but I know there is a relatively newer compression method available for JPG. I remember when new ZIP formats were introduced, older archive managers couldn't open them. Because JPG is "lossy," maybe an older viewer "thinks" it can view the image, but misinterprets some info in it. Or maybe it has a bug.

Windows comes with a graphics program called paint, that can display JPG images. I just looked at both using it, and they both look fine there. You'll have to save the images to your hard disk. Look at the fuzzy one using paint, and also using your AOL browser (you should be able to open an image on your hard disk with it). If it looks fine with paint and fuzzy with AOL, I'd say with confidence your browser is broke. If any of these steps are confusing to you, email me.