If you are a web junky like me, you really need to be using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer. I have been using Firefox for a couple of years on both my PCs and Macs (yes plural for both, I have a problem.)   Ever since I started administering the BSP.org site with WordPress  and web 2.0, I have noticed that IE crashes all the time, and often will simply shut down a blog site if there is some minor error or some plugin that IE doesn’t like.   There is also a ton of code out there to simply mess with IE browsers in the WordPress world.  Our data shows the the majority of visitors to our site still use IE, but Firefox is really closing the gap.  You can download Firefox here and read more on the subject at switch2firefox.com