Thanks all, your suggestions appreciated, but no joy.
However, in the event that this situation happens on your machine,
this worked for me
"From
http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm
1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type:
regsvr32 urlmon.dll
3. Click OK, and then click OK again when you receive the following message:
DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded.
For more info have a look at
http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers.htm#new_window "
with thanks to
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP
at
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/...&lang=en&cr=US
Cheers
LIS
happily browsing again.....