| ML> the package arrived on the 15th... now all i have to do is figure out
| ML> what order they are supposed to be installed in... these guys should

 BR> Run Windows update just to see what is missing (don't download, of
 BR> course) and jot down the numbers in order listed. The packages (IE,
 BR> OE, etc.) can be installed as needed (they won't be listed anyway).

welp... there were a few that were gotten after the initial reinstall over
the top of the broken system... one of them being the latest IE6 which i
let install with the typical setting... i don't recall the other few but
now, every day, the blinkin' thing keeps telling me that it wants
KB83mumble7009 or 9007... 

windows update is telling me that it only wants that one i just
mentioned... however, when i look at IE's about box and compare it with
another fully patched system, the other one you can barely get to the OK
button because of all the listed patches applied to IE6 but on this new
reinstalled system, there's only two or three patches listed... and this
annoying buggaboo about wanting the same patch every day...

 BR> Apply in listed order, that's what update would do if you applied
 BR> those  and ignore the messages. 

listed order? newest to oldest? i've never really written them down and
watched it download them and apply them... i believe that what i've seen is
a download in some order and then an install but don't know if it is/was
the same order as the download...

 BR> Works for me, though it's always "better" to start with a clean 
 BR> install if you have the time ...

well, that's true... the problem i have/had is needing to get back
operational ASAP without loosing anything and that includes already
installed software that i may not be able to acquire any more or may not
have saved the archive of...

 BR> Finish off with a final run of Windows Update and Download +
 BR> Install all of those missing (always something new with Microsoft).

yep! don't ya know it ;)

)\/(ark