I'm so tired of mysteriously ending up time after time on lame black hole lists and the resulting and dreaded "554: denied by gorbs" error messages.

I had a good laugh today in learning that XP SP2's refusal to install ActiveX controls from an unknown publisher only affects computers with IE security settings other than "low". In other words, if you need to install an Active X control that is unsigned or from an unknown publisher (like Microsoft's own Ikonic Menu Control, or Vodium's Webcast Control), just change your IE security settings to low, install the control, then revert the security back to "medium" or "default". And to everyone crying about IE's built-in pop-up blocking, they can simply disable it, also plain as day in the privacy settings (Tools, Internet Options...).

Found the 'COUNTRY Cache', 'Prickly Cache', and 'Pinus Beldar' caches today.