Personal Domain and Network Solutions

Does anyone out there have a .Mac Personal Domain site working where Network Solutions is the Registrar? If so, how did you handle the CNAME aliasing?

For anyone else having this problem it appears that you must:
1. In the Network Solutions Advanced DNS Manager, first eliminate the numerical IP address for 'Host' entry 'www'. When you first look at this entry it will have a note something to the effect that "Currently points to the "Under Construction" page.
2. Replace the Alias 'CNAME' with the entry 'www' then enter your Domain Name (i.e. mypersonaldomain.com) in the 'Other Host' box.
I may be wrong on this but you may need to allow a period of several hours between this two steps.

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