Ummm! Milehigh - hesitate to make this suggestion - but have you ever considered switching from IE to Netscape Communicator? It comes for free too - latest version is 4.7 . And Eudora Lite is for free too... After all, just because we all more or less have to use Windoze doesn't mean we have to use all the hanging on stuff that comes out of Redmond ...
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