Windows XP Professiona/Norton's Systemworks

I upgraded from 98 to xp pro, added norton's systemworks. had a huge mess, had to start over from factory settings and have things customized. Having a nightmare. I have to digitally sign transcripts with an account on one of my programs that used to work in 98, but now it stops halfway through and says it cannot connect to the server. So I try to log onto the website to see if it's down, and I get the "this page cannot be displayed message." Certain sites I can get on, certain ones I can't. I tried for one week to get to a site, got that stupid message page, so just typed in the key words into my search bar, it brought me to exactly the page that I needed to be at, and I got what I needed to get. For the hell of it, I typed in the address in the address bar afterwards, and it brought me to right to the site I was trying to get all week. I've played with cookies, lowered safety, disabled norton's protect, you name it. I'm waiting to hear from norton's tech, but they say 3-5 business days. If anyone has a clue where I am, holler!! thanks

 

Why do you think Norton messed up IE? Did IE work after the upgrade? Can you clarify what exactly you did-

How familiar are you with XP?

Johanna