I had a similar problem a while ago.I have now very happily ditched IE.
I found that I was unable to access certain pages that I had regularly accessed. I believe I know what the problem was.
I once went to http://www.lycos.com(I was using it for my email), but the page didn't load, I think the Lycos server was temporarily down.
Well IE decided that the page reporting that the site was down was the page I was looking for.
I deleted all cookies, hisory & cache, but to no avail. I cleared my computer of IE & reinstalled but still this occured. I tried again & again to delete IE & reinstall, after somthing like the 5th time I suddenly had access again.
my only moral here is "don't trust IE" & " don't trust a pc"
I certainly have a big problem with them & am prejudiced against them.
shaktiman
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