>Well, guess what! I went to the MS Windows Update site. There was a "Critical Update" for some security thing (sorry I can't give a better description <G>)
>I applied it and IE has now snapped up every time. Ok, 3 times, but that is a great improvement! Will it last?

Good luck!

Hmmm...I installed all the critical updates (3) they had last week, and that's when my problem began :) However, I didn't reboot for each one as MS suggested, so maybe I fouled something up. I'll try re-doing those more properly if David's idea doesn't work tonight.