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Thanks Techie,
I’m going to search around my OEM CD and find out what is or is not possible. It could be a case of hitting the Enter key and running and hiding until it is all over… 
Some investigations I have done, have led me to character set issues (possibly between my MAC friend and I). Being nearly a hundred years old, you would have thought I’d know something about ‘ellipsis’ , I never knew this is what three periods are (poor education :-[ ) . My MAC friend, see’s these three periods as the Greek ‘Sigma’ symbol and it looks from the original list that I posted, that the board shows three periods as a ‘proper’ ellipsis (small dots).
Still this doesn’t resolve all the issues, so I’m on your IE re-install track 
Thanks W.