Ok. I admit it. I'm a slacker. I love the convienence of getting my computer scanned and a web site telling me what I need to download to stay on "par" with the latest patches. That's why I use windowsupdate.com. Here's my problem though...

A few weeks back Micro$oft had a problem with windowsupdate.com. (Thier server was down...go figure.) Anyway, my dumba$$ decides to go there and have a look around and see how bad thier site was crashed. Well, it was pretty bad. As a matter of fact, I think it dorked something up on my machine. Ever since then, I have not been able to use windowsupdate.com correctly.

Most of the time it will get up to where it's scanning for new updates and will just hang there at 0% forever. Sometimes the browser window "loses" it's buttons and totally freaks out.

I've tried all the normal fixes to no avail. I've deleted cached pages, cleared my history, and I even (after a while) deleted the "update" object under tools-->internet options-->Temp Int Files-->Settings-->View Objects. (I remeber this being a fix for windowsupdate.com issues with older versions of windows and thought it would help here, but it didn't)

Anyway, this is frustrating and I don't want to have to reload IE6 just because of this. Does anyone out there have a simple solution to this? Any help is appreciated.