AOL IPs are the same, except for the last 'segment' which is always changing.
About the Who's Online dilemas. Guests cannot do anything that has been mentioned here. When a guest tries to modify their control panel or look at Employee Lounge they are presented with an Error Message. HOWEVER, Who's Online will still present the message of their whereabouts being Employee Lounge.
Mass Guests on at once are usually caused by people with AOL accounts, and websites such as Google that 'crawl' internet sites to index them. Googlebots as they are called, 'crawl' every page they can find, thus the reason so many guests are viewing so many different 'member-only' areas.
There are other reasons, but those are the common ones. vBulletin 3 corrects these errors, by displaying the appropriate Error Messages on Who's Online. Plus more, lovely added Who's Online features.
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