After a PM to Admin suggesting a possible problem with the link to Snopes.com in BOAC's post, I did some investigation.
While I could not find any problem with FF2 / IE7 on 2 different PCs, I put this down to adblocking / Noscript-like protection. Nothing reported by Sophos, Adaware or Spybot on either PC.
I then checked with vanilla IE7 on a 3rd PC and was "rewarded" with a pop-up "ad" for a dodgy AV program that "scanned" my PC (it's just an animation, folks!) and showed me to be infected with 128 trojans! Now that particular PC is an 833MHz PIII, and it couldn't even launch a virus scanner, let alone run a scan in that time.
If you fall for that...
I managed to avoid downloading the so called anti-virus software it told me that I couldn't survive without by just closing the browser window. No drama, no problem. There certainly isn't a problem with Snopes.com itself, but there is definitely a link via one of their ad servers to a dodgy ad.
Snopes - the irony!
Anyhow, I'm passing this on so that you can be cautious.
SD