You said the miracle words I wanted to hear S.Alex.
I bought 3 PC magazines, and ALL of them offered IE 6 as a "freebie".
Well freebie you are not!!
(I dumped all the diskes in my filing cabinet)
I was too afraid something like this would happen - yes, I was afraid of an installation disk.
Originally though, it was tempting to "upgrade" it from the Windows Update site - but 17MB?...................tch! Forget it.
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