YES!!!
Three cheers to archO.
Notes::::
perfectly valid fix - download ie 6 separately and the update separately and install them. It had the effect of repairing the problem. What was the problem is the more interesting question...I would bet on registry corruption and dll versions/corruption
Exactly: a confused system with varying dll's from different version of IE, etc.
Go into System Information/Tools/Version Conflict Manager I'll bet there are many additional older versions now installed: nothing that can't be fixed,
But now, the most important to you has been repaired: IE.
So, good for you Snoopy.
Even though he put the W98 disk back in, and tried to reinstall over top of his existing, that shouldn't have screwed things up to the point its at now. If older files are being copied to the PC, then a prompt comes up asking to replace the newer file with an older one. If done correctly...
Sunshine, 98 does not prompt you to replace newer with older during a reinstall.
That was win95.
If done CORRECTLY is the important thing here::
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];250928
Nice to see a problem solved!!!