I never said I was having problems with IE7, in fact it far supersedes it's predecessor since most of it came from Firefox. I do still state that you are inviting danger using IE5 or IE6 because of the active x capabilities and other issues that are exploitable by rogue internet users.

Microsoft have always been a target to extremist coders who feel they are benefiting by pointing out the flaws with Microsofts' software.

For these reasons and because it's sooo much faster plus secure I suggest using Opera browser found at http://www.opera.com/.

The best free antivirus I know for home users is Avast AV (http://www.avast.com/), which keep up with virus definitions as quick as McAfee, Norton, Panda, etc...

The problem you face Freda is we don't know your hardware setup, which could have problems with updates if the updates were designed for machines with faster busses and processing or larger RAM or graphics memory specifications.

It's more likely that the software designer was aiming for MS Windows SP2 users so issues may arrise where files that are needed for IE7 will be missing!!!

Good luck... but hey.. the most important thing is you can access Mudcat.org ;p lol

Houston