>I have a weird thing with my VFP6 w/SP3. One day, all of the toolbar buttons stopped working on the form designer toolbar.

I've never seen anything similar. Have you tried deleting (after backing up!) your resource files (foxuser.db?)?

>On a similar note, does anyone else have problems with the startup time of IE 5?

What's your processor? What page do you have set as your home?