>Arrrg! I just can't take it anymore. IE crashed on my over and over all day again. Clear the cache, logoff, reboot. blah blah blah. Stupid thing keeps freezing - eatting up 100+mb of memory, I just can't take it anymore! Been going on for months on serveral machines.
>Firefox is getting installed tonight on all my machines.

Good move. I went through exactly the same thing. I still have IE 7 loaded and use it for only two purposes: other Microsoft software, like developer tools, that insist on IE, and the occasional web site that doesn't render correctly in Firefox.