>"What nerve - you guys never give up. I intend to post my opinion of this matter on the various developer newsgroups that I use."
Jeff,

Again, if the OS is Win95 or WinNT 4.0 or higher, which are the only OS's that VP 5 and later will run on, then IE is there even if it isn't being used as the Browser. HTML help needs the DLLs that IE Installs not the browser. Your point is moot.