Yet in your earlier reply, you wrote "I took took your advice and ran Spybot
S&D..."

Youka wrote:
> I stopped using Spybot S&D's Imunzation feature when I moved to IE8. I
> also
> dropped IE-SPYAD (which adds sites to IE's Restricted Sites zone), and ran
> DelDomains to cleanout my IE Restricted Sites zone, after experiencing
> problems with my initial IE8 install.