I'm still at a loss to explain what happened, but I found article 299294
shows how to recover it.
I was able to do this by using the windows\options\install (tip from Mike
the other day about use this path instead of the WinME CD ... thanks Mike)
but the quick launch still doesnt show the 'e'.
I'm going to reboot and see what happens.

"Donna" wrote in message
...
Something very wacky is going on. I was using Internet explorer when all
of
a sudden it closed up, and message that windows cannot find iexplorer.exe
showed up. Down in the shortcut try, the icon has changed from the 'e' to
what looks like an executable file. When I hover over it with the mouse,
dw15.exe shows as the name.
what the heck?????