OK - this is sort of serious because I have to resolve to for my professional needs before next week. I do have a backup plan, but that simply involves working on different machines for this purpose.
The work involved uses an INTRANET application from the company I am freelancing for, it is for their problem management. Although it will run under IE7 the update function seems to be foobar - this is also true with Ffox and Opera, which I tried as possible workarounds. I am not certain, but believe both JavaScript and ActiveX are involved in the app.
Anyway - I think it is heavily dependent on IE6 for correct operation.
I guess I have two courses of action going forward (since I should have this working for me by next week) One is to get very latest IE7 beta and see if it works with that (I am still back on 5335.5)...
The other is to revert back to IE6. Has that been covered in this thread? I am guessing it is non-trivial, but anyone care to advise? Can't help thinking someone must have "been there, done that" so thought it worth a post...
[EDIT] Presently back to IE6, seems that is necessary in this instance. Just had to remove the beta to revert. So back to Ffox for my tabbed browsing for now... [/EDIT]