Binoculars, to avoid the nonsurfing problems you could install a nonbrowser image viewer. A good one is IrfanView (current release 3.61). The download URLS seem to be incredibly long so start at
http://www.tucows.com or
http://www.download.com and do a search or browse through the Graphics Viewer section. When you install IrfanView it will give you a wide range of file associations to choose from. (Selecting *.gif and *.jpg,*.jpeg are obvious starters. I use graphics editors for wmf and bmp files so I left those associations alone.)
IrfanView has an ugly icon but you can change that easily enough (and I like to have a different icon for gifs and jpegs anyway).
Installation of Netscape has never been a problem for me but I have never had MSIE installed.