Force AOL webmail to launch when mailto link clicked

Is there anyway to tell Safari to use AOL webmail when mailto links are clicked? The problem is IMAP doesn't work reliably on my wife's Mail.app for AOL, and she wants to be able to click on mailto links and send messages directly from AOL without having to go back and forth between webmail on Safari and Mail. She has a free AOL e-mail account.
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I just discovered:
http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/12/19/webmailer-easily-set-webmail-as-default-mail er/
Hopefully that's all I'll need! We'll see in a day or so.

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