As a long time IE user, I too was always put off by Rich's constant put down of Internet "Exploder". It was my browser of choice for several years and I never had any problems with it. Plus, I make my living developing applications using the Microsoft product suite so I wasn't about to use any other browser. About 6 months ago I began having big time problems with it crashing and running sluggishly on my Windows 7 machine. My 15 year-old son had been using Google Chrome on his Windows 7 machine and suggested I do the same. Boy, am I happy I did. It is stable and much more reliable than the version of IE I had been running. So...Rich's recommendation to avoid IE does have merit IMHO.
Rick