The only difficulty that I've had with IE7 is that on one specific website it seems that if I "open in new tab" the new page doesn't download until I actually click on that tab - but if I try to "open in new tab" more than one new page at the same time, opening "tab 3" before "tab 2" has been loaded, IE locks up and I have to start over from scratch.

This happens repeatedly, but ONLY AT MSNBC, so far as I've seen.

See above about MSN Explorer. MSN is NOT actually a "Microsoft company" and operates independently, although it's theoretically an "affiliate" in the corporate structure. MSN seems deliberately to violate the rules for Windows compatibility, and has been doing so for years.

I blame MSN, not IE7. It's a little more difficult to get the same result with IE6, but I've gone back and verified that the same incompatibility exists, opening more than one new Window using IE6 on "her" Win2K machine, without completely loading each page before opening the next, usually locks everything up.

John