But, crossing fingers for the U of M follow through.

Hey, my (as differentiated to my wife's machine or the shared laptop) one Windows machine is WinME. Fortunately, with Andrew Grygus's help, it is reasonably well behaved now. There will be no Windows upgrades in its future. Upgrades only encourage Microsoft to stay in business.

On your machine, use IE to [link|http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/|download Firefox] and then re-install it. You will want version 1.0.7 anyway.

Sorry about the sinus problems. Apparently, there's more to your condition than was understood.

We're all pulling for you.