Hallo!
I had that problem a while back. IE6 wouldnt update to IE 5...The problem solved it self cause I had to reinstall Me after a hard disc crash. After the reinstall of Me it worked. I guess that the "old" IE5 that I had on my pc had a corrupt file so it wouldnt let IE6 in...sort of. I hope you understand what I mean. Maybe try to reinstall IE5 before update?
Regards...
Katana1260
i have a 733 mg systemax with 127 mg ram i recently went to down load ie 6 but got a message that said some componets were missung i tryed to update from windows update need help thanks karen

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