>Ed,
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>Could it possibly be that the MS documentation is referring to the version of IE4, not the SHELL32.DLL file? I just noticed that IE4/SP2 is 4.72.3112.1713.

Nope - it's pretty clear in many locations that it refers to Shell32.DLL - the actual provider is SHDOC40?.DLL (on mine it's SHDOC401.DLL in the System32 directory - you can check the registry to see what the provider is as the InProc32 subkey, and check the provider's version.)