Once again many thanks to all of you, I was using IE version 5.0,
(I'm REALLY archaic here, but it suits me), I have just installed
Firefox version 5.0, and it works, I now have my cookies back.

I will have to drag myself into the real world and start updating things a bit. I don't want to, I dislike XP let alone Vista,
I have XP on another machine which I don't put on line, but I don't
like it much, I only have it on there because the main board wouldn't
run Windows '98 when I built it.

Ah well, progress has caught up with me, so I'll have to go with the
flow I suppose, I'll give it some thought over Christmas.

Thanks once again to you all, especially JohnInKansas, for your thoughts on this problem.

Have a lovely Christmas and a very good New Year.

Best wishes

Cattail !