Thanks for your ongoing support.
1. Have checked WinPatrol/Cookies and there are Cookies
for the sites in question.
2. I am running Zone Alarm free. I do not have options for Cookie
handling for individual sites.
3. Running Spyware Blaster. I have Snapshots , which I may need to play with.
I mention this as I've been using Tune Up Utilities 2004 to tweak
and clean and fear that maybe I've broken something :'( (this is unlikely ) but I can use the back ups in rescue center.I'm not an expert. I'm trying to be logical and fishing for ideas here.
As I said before I'm running XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2, IE 6.
I will now try enabling Cookies for these sites through Internet Explorer.
Obviously I have to check through quite a few things.
I'm thinking ZA and Avast Web Shield incompatablility; and checking if I've done something wrong with TuneUpUtilities2004.
I would think seeing I'm logged in here, and , with the passing of time, and the fact that I do have Cookies as verified by looking at WinPatrol, and my temp files, that Cookies are enabled.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated before I make any drastic adjustments and as you can see I'm already feeling like I'm out of my depth here.
To me, it seems there is either something missing , i.e; me checking backups from cleanups,and restore. Or something needs to be fixed/removed with Hijack This. I will attempt a HijackThis log analysis.