Back again - I didn't mean to turn this into a windows bashing thread... much. It's just that I was stuck with IE for a little while as I was waiting for Mozilla 1.7 - it wasn't a long wait really, it just felt that way.
And I appologize to anyone who uses IEradicator on my recommendation and then experiences trouble with running other programs. If this is the case and you used IEradicator from LitePC.com, feedback can be left at that site.