Oops... I'm at IE 6.0 SP2, so I guess that's OK.

Yea, I do have the .NET 2.0 installed, downloaded from the link there.

I see though that I am only at IE 6.0.xxxx. I had assumed (incorrectly, clearly) that I was at latest non-beta.

I'll give that a shot. THANKS.
>Jim,
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>I don't know if this will help, but in the latest available download for BOL2005...
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>https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BE6A2C5D-00DF-4220-B133-29C1E0B6585F&displaylang=en
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>...under the requirements, it says that BOL 2005 requires the .NET 2.0 framework and IE 6.0 SP1.
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>If you don't have the 2.0 .NET runtime installed, that "might" explain why you can't read it, but Dmitry can.
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>Hope that helps.
>Kevin