I'm not sure if I'm seeing what you're describing, but I've noticed lately that some bizarre links are turning up in pages I've searched for, and when I click in the line I tried to search for I get a totally unrelated result in an advertising link. It's really odd. I haven't seen it lately, but I scan and keep my spyware up to date. I notice IE isn't terribly stable these days, crashing more easily and loading slowly. I figured I'd wait to the weekend and try to diagnose the problem. I just reloaded my Windows and I can't imagine trying to do something so radical as that again. Surely you can think of a few intermediate steps, like full frontal lobotomy (i.e., regedit). ;-D

SRS