Using Vista or Win7? Upgrade to IE9, or if you're still on XP (or even if you have Vista or 7)be a hater and try Firefox. I'm an IE guy myself, but I keep Firefox around for when I run into shit that IE can't or won't work with. There are other browser options as well, but I prefer the interface of Firefox to any of the others aside from IE.
The beauty of swapping browsers is that it often will allow you to avoid having to fix anything and just lets you bunnyhop over a problem saving time and frustration.