But how would the browser know which site you wanted? IMO, it's working the way it should.

You can change search providers under Tools -> Internet Options. The default search provider, Live Search, is Microsoft's search engine.

>You would think that if I type "wral" into the browser address bar, it would know that I probably want www.wral.com by default. Instead, it brings up something called Live Search, which shows a list of possible sites. Oddly, the first one is not www.wral.com, but www.wral-tv.com. Maybe the option to handle that is in IE7 somewhere, but I haven't come across it. I know, what about all those people who wanted www.wral.org? That's why I would want a default setting.