I had the same problem.

If you are not receiving updates, you have IE6, which will not work with the latest update.  You need to update to IE7. To get it, you need to run Wndows Update, and chose the button that allows you to install other updates besides the Critical updates (I'm not at a Windows machine right now-can you tell?!)  I also have it set to hide the IE 8 update (which is under Critical updates, but I don't use IE other than for Windowes Update, so I don't want it installed)  I have all of the updates other than IE8 installed on my XP machine.

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