IE keeps performing an "illegal operation"

[Gary]

I randomly get an error using Internet Explorer. IE shuts down and
gives me the "this program has performed an illegal operation and will
be shutdown" message. It ALWAYS happens when I'm typing text into
fields, sometimes its the URL field, and others it could be ANY field
on ANY web page. Its not after clicking a link, or any other
operation. This problem was occuring with IE 5.5 so I upgraded to IE
6, and its happens just as much.

Any clue on this? Its very annoying. I'm using Windows 98SE. Please
post the response here, or email it to (e-mail address removed)

I included the dump from the latest error.

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module USER.EXE at 001e:0000166c.
Registers:
EAX=00047000 CS=16cf EIP=0000166c EFLGS=00000296
EBX=03f48aa8 SS=3bc7 ESP=00008a98 EBP=03f48aa8
ECX=00000004 DS=0197 ESI=002f0001 FS=4db7
EDX=00000000 ES=3bc7 EDI=00008a9c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
67 66 ad ab e2 fa 67 66 a5 c3 67 66 ad ab 85 d2
Stack dump:
16af2f97 03f47000 00040000 16cf2d8c bff714d9 0000018f 03f4fab8
00000197 00004db7 00030000 00000000 002f0001 03f4fae8 027c42ad
4b488a04 00000000

 

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