well, sorry, ds, but i've failed to recreate your problem. i'm sure if i could duplicate what you're doing, i could fix it.
which brings me to another somewhat related matter. this morning i added
http://www.lspn.net to the restricted list in internet explorer. i was erroneously under the impression adding sites to the restricted list blocks access to that site. not so. i wasn't able to login to
http://www.lspn.net because of cookie restrictions on restricted sites, but i could still render the homepage, as well as see all of the tournaments.
lol. then, i couldn't un-delete
http://www.lspn.net from the restricted list.
http://www.lspn.net didn't show up in the list (i have a rather extensive blocked list) to delete. but i couldn't add it to the trusted list, nor could i login. so i ended up having to delete the restricted list entirely, and rebuilding the list.
btw, ds, you and i owe a particular site a paypal donation for 'borrowing' their restricted list. (8
edit#1: i guess what i would do now, is reinstall internet explorer. i'm not 100 percent sure off the top of my pointy head howto do that, but searching the ms knowledge base should give a few hints. if'n that's something you might wanna do, lettuce know.