Since it has not been mentioned. Have you got the latest Flash plugin installed? I reformatted a while ago and could not connect to Daz with XP Home and thought it was something with the OS or IE, turned out I had not installed all the plugin goodies that I needed and I had turned ON the disable message that lets me know that a site required a plugin so I didn't know even though IE wanted to tell me what it needed, I had turned that option off accidently. Just a thought.