Quick follow-up from me. I appear to have success with rolling back my desktop to before the install of IE8. Several reboots and no further...
Using Acronis 2009, I re-imaged my laptop to a recent point just prior to the installation of IE8. So far so good. I have rebooted a few times...
I have recently been having the same boot.ini deleting problem as gwiner7041. Surferdude2's comment about the problem perhaps being related to...
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