Help--IE 6 won't open

From: Da5id (genenospamgirard_at_msn.com)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 16:27:41 -0800

Several weeks ago I noticed that all of the buttons,
animations, and some images in my Yahoo DSL browser would
not work. Tech support at Yahoo said it was an Internet
Explorer/script (Java, VBS, other?) issue. Now Internet
Explorer will not open at all. When I click on the icon
on my desktop absolutely nothing happens -- no error
messages, no hard drive thrashing, no nothing. The
engine itself is working inasmuch as I can utilize the
MSN browser, the crippled form of the Yahoo browser, and
Crazy Browser. I have tried the following:

CHKDSK

DEFRAG

Virus check -- MicroTrend, Norton, AVG, and others

Double checked Zone Alarm Pro, including attempting to
start with firewall disabled

Spyware and Adware scan with four different programs and
removed all entries.

Tried different combinations of "Set Program Access and
Defaults"

Successfully uninstalled and reinstalled Internet
Explorer version 6 -- (in other words I uninstalled
Internet Explorer from Ad/Remove Programs, downloaded the
set up and install files for a full Internet Explorer
version 6 install, performed the install with no error
messages (although the download was very short because
the install program recognized that I needed few, if any
files) and got a brand-new different and shiny Internet
Explorer icon on my desktop. That's the one that does
nothing. Also whenever a program tries to open
the "default browser" nothing happens.

Related Issue: Some Advertisements and Buttons in Web
Pages are missing across browser platforms, i.e.,
Netscape and Opera.

System:
Windows XP operating system
HP Intel P-4 1.6 MHz
1 GIG DDR memory
1.5 Mb ADSL SBC Yahoo Internet connection

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.