H'mm I had'nt noticed that I just checked what was in my cache folders and it does seem to be cacheing the stars and things everytime. Does seem to defeate the object of cacheing them in the first place. By the way if anybody dosent know here is a hidden file that internet explorer uses apart from the usual internet tempory files folder: C:Documents and SettingsusernameLocal SettingsTemporary Internet FilesContent.IE5 The username of course refers to whatever you computer is called. In here you will find lots of folders full of cached stuff. I delete these every so often too.