Sorry, I need to next version to even start to fix that problem. Part of the reason I switched to Firefox was to fix this.
Viruses and helpers (google) interfere with this in IE ... a lot.
I will also recommend to Doc and others not to install the toolbars that yahoo and google. Turn off browser helpers. I will say, even for me getting rid of viruses is non trivial. The updates you need to clean off the disk are on the internet, but you have to turn it off to fix the viruses.
Doc you may need to rebuild the OS (copy the files you need to CD or DVD) and reload the OS.
Unzinced ships sink at slips. yep