I have a work-around: Get into your browser options and disable Javascripts. Then refresh the screen, and the vertical ad goes away. Apparently it's thrown out there by a Javascript.
Note: this may have some other undesirable side-effects, for which javascripts are needed. Like inserting the html tags for composing a reply. But at least you'll be able to read the darned message.
(This post was edited by JohnRich on Nov 3, 2011, 8:27 PM)
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