ERIC am running this answer from Firefox 3.5.2 - it takes some getting used to -am surprised you are not running it as i think its home is the UK - am also running IE 6 at same time when i test web pages for friends , i have IE 6 , Firefox and Safari going at same time. If needed i can start my second system and run ie 8 but it is terribly slow if i am really pushed i can start Wife's vista/ie8 laptop but i don't want to get into the habit firefox is by far quicker and more stable than my IE 6 I may be forced to install ie 7 as more and more pages do not work right with ie 6 and from what i have read there a ton of sites that are not friendly to IE 8 IMHO Safari is the least user friendly if you had a skype or msn messenger acct I am sure one of the forum could talk you thru starting Firefox ken