......apparently there's another bug in yet another Internet Explorer patch that's raised its ugly head. If you apply the MS04-004 patch to an Internet Explorer 5 system, or MS03-032 to an Internet Explorer 6 SP 1 system, you'll break any program that has to use one specific part of memory. Some folks can solve the problem by installing a later patch. Others have to contact Microsoft directly for a hotfix.
Knowledge Base Article 828432 for details about the patches to the patch.

Reflect on the fact that a few months from now, Windows XP Service Pack 2 will automatically update your machine by default, unless you choose - in two separate, confusing dialog boxes - to tell Windows to keep its mitts off your system. (At least, that's how it works in the current beta of Service Pack 2.) Mark my words. Some day soon, Microsoft will release a patch that brings a sizable percentage of all PC users to their knees. Most Windows users won't have the slightest idea what happened, or how to fix it, thanks to continued incompetence in the patching arena, and the wonders of automatically applied updates.

Trustworthy computing.

WWW Febr 19, 2004