IE or Other App Appears To Lockup Then Release

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I have been suffering through a weird phenomenon lately. Whenever I go to IE
the first time of any boot or reboot, it "hangs" after filling up the status
bar for several minutes, then releases and all is well. (NOTE: I don't think
this is IE-specific. It has happened booting apps, but I notice it most with
IE as I use it extensively.) When things seem to lock up, EVERYTHING is
locked up. I can't even bring up Task Manager, none of the icons in the Task
Bar are active, etc. Sometimes I can Tab through other apps that are open,
sometimes not, but when I can, the app is "frozen" until whatever is going on
finishes. During this time, I can watch the process light (I have a Dell D600
laptop) going nuts.

Before and after this event, I have run the system through the latest
updates of utilities such as Ad-Aware Plus, Ad-Watch, PestPatrol, Symantec
Antivirus, Ace Utilities, RegSeeker, etc., and none of them sends up a flag
that anything is wrong.

My machine is always up-to-date via Windows Update feature, so I don't know
what is causing this. I had the bright idea to reinstall XP SP2, but can't.
Every time I try, it quits, giving me nothing more than a smal window with a
red X in it and the notification that the install has been cancelled. I
ordered the free XPSP2 CD just to see if that would make any difference, but
I get the same error. I suspect I could attempt a slipstream install, but I
don't want to go through all that if anyone out there recognizes this problem
and knows what the solution is outside of doing a slipstream reinstall of
SP2.

Finally, I have several times done System Restores going back as far as I
can, but while they have been successful (although I usually have to do the
restore in Safe Mode as they will often fail otherwise), it has made no
difference related to this problem.

I do install and uninstall a lot of software on my machine, but I am very
careful to ensure it is cleaned up afterwards, even if the uninstall goes
smoothly (e.g, I do a registry clean and all that).

Any ideas?

Bill F
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