>Jim,
>
>Thanks for the effort of the compare. If I get a chance I'll enumerate the Advanced tab listing (grumbling that I can't copy/paste that treeview in one simple operation) to check that too. I don't think I've set anything there that is that far off of default.
>

I am not sure if all settings are there, but you can export the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main] branch from the registry.

I suppose that the missing entries are the one that you have leave to default (not sure but its look like).

HTH :-)