Slight problem with Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer

[Howard]

I am running Windows 2000 Professional SP1 right now. My problem is, almost 100% of the time I load up IE or WE, the program won't display itself on the taskbar. It is running perfectly, but you can't tell it to pop up by clicking on it on the taskbar. If you click somewhere else and then click back on the window it will display on the taskbar, or if you have something else in front of the window (that's not in the taskbar), and Alt+Tab to it, it will pop up both on the screen and the taskbar.

Please help, it's driving me mad!