I would definitely try turning off the Sun Plugin support in IE and see if it makes a difference... jEmplode doesn't use the java Plugin (just the JRE/JVM externally) so this shouldn't affect jEmplode at all. Incidentally, I saw this on a machine at work once (unrelated to jEmplode) but never really followed it through to figure out what was happening -- Let me know i you track down what's going on. Mike