[Pete Collins]

Thanks Stewy and BWD.

There's no problem with the internet connection - I'm typing this on my PC usuing Mozilla Firefox (another internet browser). It's just Internet Explorer 7 that seems to be the problem, along with things like Outlook that somehow use IE7.

I did check ZoneAlarm (my parent's are forever disabling IE and other necessary programs on their PC!), and both IE and Outlook are enabled.

I've thought of uninstalling IE7 and downloading it again, but the Add/Remove Programs thing warned that a lot of pograms have been installed since IE7, and I don't want to muck things up further.

I could live with using a different browser, it's the fact that Outlook and other programs linked to IE7 are failing that is the real problem.