From a PM .... Long shot, but are you perhaps viewing those web sites in Compatability View - that is compatible with an earlier version of...
Checking through my notes I found this .....
I am at a disadvantage here in that I have not used XP since Windows 7 beta was released and being a single user have no experience of multiple...
Thanks for the update - glad to hear you found the cause of the BSOD :) Please mark this thread as 'Resolved', see .....
Sounds like your file associations are mixed up - this should solve the issue .... Unable to Start a Program with an .exe File Extension
Separate names with a comma.