No problem Vlk, I can easily wait for a fix. I was concerned that the topic seemed to disappear off the forum which made me wonder if the forum inputs had made it to the developers. Just asking though the technical support ticket process quickly resolved my concern. Just my stupidity along makes me aware of the complexities of the Windows environment in conjunction with all the applications that are written for the OS. Another thing that amazes me is the quantity of Internet spam that must be dealt with by such tools as avast. One of the carriers that I use has told me that less than 1% of what hits their server is valid traffic. I find that very disconcerting.
On this IE8/pdf problem, I found that just allowing IE8 to restart (resume) itself solved the pdf freezing as long as the browser remained an active process.
Press on, I appreciate the effort and have ever since you fixed the BSD problems I was having with the new release.