>The cookie problem is being abused more than most people realize. Cookies can fire pre-existing scripts (MS scripts) to extract the GUID, installed apps, etc., automatically, to be retrieved the next time the user browses certain sites that have 'signed on' to these stealth spying adventures.
Do you mean that IE will try to "act" (run code) upon cookies rather than just treat them as simple text as it should?
Sylvain Demers