Please take another look at the thread titled, "Page Saved as .mht Won't Open
in IE7," started on 2/13/2009 7:42 PM PST by Todd Henry, and reply either
here or there. No real solutions have been posted so far. Key points from
my own observations are:

1) Todd is not alone, nor does the problem appear to be
installation-specific. I've been having what is apparently the same problem
lately (not sure exactly when it started), with or without an active Internet
connection.

2) This problem occurs on two different machines of mine with different
versions of Windows XP and, consequenetly I suppose, slightly different
versions of IE7. (The only obvious common element in my case is ZoneAlarm
Security Suite 8.0298.035 -- not sure about Todd's. Otherwise these two
installations are quite different.)

3) Nothing seems to be happening in Task Manger, except System Idle
Processes, during the freeze-up of IE7.

4) I can still open an OLD .mht file (saved in Nov, 2008, probably with IE6)
in IE7, with or without an Internet connection, suggesting that it might be
the "save" side of the transaction that's troublesome.

5) Renaming the recent (non-opening) files with MS-DOS-compatible file names
doesn't help,

Thanks in advance for any help! -- JCW