I disagree; my experience has been pretty much completely different from yours. The only one I had problems with was 98SE, and that turned out to be because of the adware/spyware program Gain/Gator and one of its affiliates. When I finally [I was still new to online] discovered what it was and eradicated that sort of problem, then reinstalled the operating system, I had no more trouble. Of course, by that time, I no longer used Internet Explorer either.

[I first switched to Netscape, then to Opera, which is what I've used ever since.]


edit: oops, I think I'm straying offtopic for too many posts.