Weird image requests from AOL browser

Has anyone seen /nav_current.gif?

[nafmo]

I'm get a lot of requests for /nav_*.gif from hosts under AOL. There are no such images, and none are referenced in the document in the referring URL. The pages (like most of my pages) do have <link> tags for intra-site navigation, is there some weird browser trying to (ab)use that?

something.aol.com - - [23/Jan/2004:22:30:38 +0100] "GET /nav_current.gif HTTP/1.0" 404 5080 "(referring page)" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 8.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; Q312461; Circle0701)"
something.aol.com - - [23/Jan/2004:22:30:38 +0100] "GET /nav_previous.gif HTTP/1.1" 404 5106 "(same referring page)" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 8.0; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90; Q312461; Circle0701)"

[tedster]

Those image names are used on Google SERPs for navigation through the pages of the search results.

nav_previous.gif --> is a capital "G" with a left arrow
nav_current.gif ---> is a red "o"
nav_next.gif ------> is "gle" with a right arrow

And the rest of the familiar "Gooooogle" graphic is filled in with tan colored, unlinked "o" s.

Can't say why the AOL browser would look for them on your site. Maybe a technical glitch on their caching servers.

[nafmo]

The thing is that they all come with a referrer pointing to my pages. But I guess it's just AoL being weird, then. Thanks.