&$!#@(@!!!! SFC didn't work, either. I also tried re-registering urlmon.dll again, but still no dice.
One thing I should maybe elaborate on, though. If I am in e-mail (Eudora Pro) and I click the link while holding <shift>, the link opens a new window and everything comes up fine. If I click on a shortcut on the desktop or go through explorer to my Favorites folder, I have no problems. It's only a problem if I try to open an additional window from within another IE window.
Something else I noticed today, though...when the new 'ghost' of an IE window opens, the browser activity icon in the upper right corner of the browser window (On most systems, it's the Internet Explorer 'e' and a Windows flag) continues to move like the page is trying to load. However, it appears that the request is not being sent through the line. In other words, the window opens to a non-full screen window, but if you look at the DUN connection icon in the system tray (the icon of two computers overlapping each other), the PCs in the icon do not flash the bright green to show any modem activity. (I actually have DSL, but I use WinPoET, which acts very similar to a DUN connection) IE is trying to open a page but it appears that the request is not being sent through to the internet. As such, it can't receive data that must not even be getting requested.
And again, when the window opens, it doesn't open just blank. The browser part of the window opens as if it is transparent. (I wish I could grab a screen capture and upload it to show you exactly what I mean) If I switch to my mail client and then click on the 'ghost' window, I see the outline of the window and the toolbars fine, but the actual part of the browser screen that shows web page data will show everything my mail client would show, aligned perfectly. If I try to move the 'ghost' window, I screw up the alignment because the background window's data moves with it. If i then switch to another app, or even another IE window and then switch back to the 'ghost' window, I now have THAT latest browser's data. You might even picture the web page part of the browser as a see-through pane of glass until you move it, in which case you see that what you THOUGHT was the browser behind is actually appearing in that browser. Switching to a different window and then back results in the 'ghost' window now showing that window's data. It's quirky, I'll admit.
Worse case scenario: I'm thinking about getting a new hard drive, so if I do, I'll just install it and start everything over from scratch. I really don't want to do that, but I will if I have to. I still haven't run Win 98 setup again over my existing install, but maybe I should try that, too. It's just irritating because I just blew everything away and started over from scratch about a month ago. My ISP had a network issue that they denied (and since I had just gotten DSL, I took their word for it and figured the problem was in my setup) so I started tweaking and ended up breaking my network properties completely (as well as hosing the registry) and after a few hours of troubleshooting, decided i could just rebuild faster than manually gutting the registry of everything myself. I'd hate to have to do it again, but I may end up doing it tomorrow.
Oh well...
:disgust:
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