I've had no real proglems with IE7, although it does take a while to get used to some of its quirks.

As noted, going to tools and checking "Menu Bar" will give you the File-Edit-View-Favorites-Tools-Help toolbar you're accustomed to. Everything that's there is "elsewhere," at one or more of the default icons.

I found it initially a bit confusing that several things appear, seemingly at random, on several different icons. If you happen to find the button for something that you do often, in a place where it's "clumsy" to get to, you can often find the same button, or another one that looks different but opens the same function, in another more convenient(?) place.

Also, don't miss the little >> arrow at the right, which opens an "extension" of the default toolbar (like the same symbol on Google toolbar, if you have that, or at the bottom on the Quick Start section of the start bar). "Help" is out on the extension, probably because Microsoft figured out that nobody ever looks at it anyway.

With IE6, one had to separately load the popup blocker and phishing filter, and managing them was sort of "mystic seance experience" since they were "separated functions." They both are integrated into IE7, and shortcut buttons to the main functions are at the top of the "Tools" drop-down, which I do find handy. Most users will have little reason to use the new buttons, since the blockers automatically pop up a warning when a site tries to use an add-on, and you can deal with them from the warning popup.

John