Hi FreewheelinFrank, Thanks for the reply.
--> The self-help web sites just want you to install an anti-virus program: if they think AVG Free is the only free program, then they're probably not very knowledgeable.<-- Oh No! That wasn't what any of them said, and they advertise Avast! too, that's how I found Avast!
--> Just ignore any invitations to buy DrWeb and just click the 'scan' button on CureIT!<-- Ha, ha! Old Dr. Web has either gotten wise to people doing that or is in need of money because it wouldn't let me get past the nag screen without clicking on the buy now button, so I just gave up on it.
--> I don't think IE does show up in Add/Remove<-- Well, according to all of the people that I've talked to at self help site try to tell me that I'm looking in the wrong place because IE is supposed to be in the Add\Remove thing.
I don't remember how I did it but I had tried IE7 about a year ago, couldn't get along with it and uninstalled it in favor of IE6.
Thanks,
Wendy