Thanks, Don. Your note seems to confirm that this is a known issue. But is
there really no setting somewhere that can prevent ads from being treated by
IE as pages? Anyone out there know how to do this in a more "permanent" way?

"Don Varnau" wrote:

> Hi,
> Workaround- Use the down arrow on the Back button to bypass the other pages.
> I haven't heard of another solution to this problem.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> [MS MVP- IE]
>
> "Paul G" <PaulG@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4D2F7CDE-ECE9-43BE-8A31-2F6AA6CAD770@microsoft.com...
> > I'm using IE7 with XP Pro. Lots of horsepower. Plenty of RAM. When I
> visit
> > a site with a lot of advertising on it -- such as a newspaper -- and click
> to
> > a second page and then try to click the back button to return to the home
> > page, I find myself clicking 3 or 4 or 5 or even more times before I get
> back
> > to the home page. It APPEARS that it is somehow associated with the ads
> that
> > have loaded and even the advertising space for those ads that have been
> > blocked. (One ad or ad space seems to disappear with every back button
> > click). What's up with that? It makes the back button essentially
> useless.
> > Is there a setting I'm missing that can make that button crisp again? (I
> > don't recall having this problem with IE6.)
>
>