Well, Gore, speaking of breaking things, I downleaded the last "patch" a month or so ago, for IE and it slowed IE down to the point that I finally uninstalled it and switched to Mozilla Firebird.
I now use Firebird and Thunderbird instead of IE and Outlook Express. Firebird has more features than IE and is more secure. The same goes for Thunderbird . Download both, make them default, and forget about Windows internet security for a while .