There's another cloud in IE 5.5 with the WINDOWS CODE LEAK that you heard about. A researcher found some vulnerabilities in IE 5.5 and as such, this browser is now dead. I haven't read of any patch to fix this.
You can read about it in the Security Forum, but for me, I'd just move to Mozilla (http://www.mozilla.org) and install IE 6.0
If this is annoying, I can understand.
Bob

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