Internet Explorer Dial-Up

A customer of ours has a shiny new Pentium III 800 system running Windows ME, and IE 5.5. IE will not, however, retain the option to "Dial whenever a network connection is not present", or even "Always dial my default connection". You can set it to these, shut IE 5.5 down, reload IE, and it will work. Works all the time...UNTIL you reboot the computer. Once you've restarted WinME, it changes the setting back to "Never dial a connection".
We thought that the customer was doing something funky, like turning off the "Disable" when the auto-disconnect comes up, or something. But, we've seen it happen with our own eyes.
Any idears anyone?

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***the Beast
- I only came for the platypus soup

check to see that auto save settings on reboot is enabled in the registry. Try saving the following key in the registry.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre ntVersion\Policies\Explorer", "NoSaveSettings", 0, REG_DWORD

also, might wanna lock around in here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\