Thanks for your assistance Allan, Tried both the cookies and temp file delete--no change.Both browsers are IE. The one on the comp. with the issue is definitely running IE6. The other is hard to determine but due to it's issue date-july 2006. I suspect it too is ver.6 (this computer)
You might wonder why it is that i cannot be more certain as to this computer's IE version.That is because when my initial browser window is opened (both have the same home page) this one does NOT have the tool bar (file,edit,etc.). Therefore there is no "help" to ascertain the version. I find that difference to be odd!
On both those computers i do not have any other browsers. I know there are others (i am using Opera on a 3rd one). I did have Foxfire for a while on one or both of these 2 but i seemed to have a lot of issues of conflicts with IE so i deleted Foxfire. I am aware that Foxfire is highly reccommended. Haven't done anything to the "index.dat file" as yet. What would be the consequences of removal of that file? truenorth