Hi DavidR,
But as I said in a previous posting somewhere, Microsoft finds itself in between a rock and a hard place here. They have to consider users with a minimal or no knowledge whatsoever of safe browsing practices, everything must have full functionality with complex techniques as it comes out of the box or ready installed, Flash, full admin rights, dangerous browser heper objects etc. etc. - the software developer has to keep all dangers at bay and the poor uneducated n00b user must use the new browser "with no strings attached". This cannot function, not even in an ideal world. It is still a miracle this Internet of ours is not completely "broken beyond repair" as you come to think of it, so actually we should be thankful for the white and red hat community to educate developer and "dumbed down"user alike to keep the rubber bands in the right places. If these aforementioned user hordes were left loose at a Mac or open standards the malcreants could jump for joy, they could have a free for all,
polonus