Cannot search from address bar in IE6 SP1

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*PF*

Hi, my browser recently got hijacked by ISearch and it's
add on programs and to keep a long story short I've
uninstalled it and cleaned up my system using Spybot S&D,
Ad-aware, and Highjackthis (for use on the
spywareinfo.com's help forum but it seems like everyone is
a sleep at the wheel over there). So I'm hoping someone
here has some ideas regarding this frustrating problem of
not being able to search from the address bar. I am using
Windows 98SE with all of the updates, I use Norton Anti-
virus (and now Spybot & Ad-Aware. Everything worked great
until 6/12 when the darn Isearch (intelligent explorer,
bargainbuddy, etc. got slipped onto my system
unknowingly). Now, if I type "JURASSIC" for example in the
address bar of IE to do a search I get the "page cannot be
displayed" white screen with this weird nonsense in the
address bar: http:///? jurassic. I tried resetting the
tools>internet options>advance tab settings to display
search results in main window but nothing happens.
Apparently those "Ifools" did something when I used their
uninstall program at this address:
http://toolbar.isearch.com/uninstall/. I've even gone as
far as downloading the IE6 SP1 again in hopes that it
would resolve the situation but to no avail. This is
driving me insane! Please help!!!
*PF*
 
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Guest

Check these keys and edit them, if necessary:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\
DefaultPrefix default="http://"

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\URL\
Prefixes
"ftp"="ftp://"
"gopher"="gopher://"
"home"="http://"
"mosaic"="http://"
"www"="http://"
 
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*PF*

Thanks for you're help, unfortunately my keys are
identical to those you listed. Any other ideas? Thanks.
*PF*
 
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*PF*

THANK YOU No@SpaM very much, Bazooka found the remaining
Spyware files and I successfully removed them. Now my only
problem is searching from the darn address bar (see below
from my original post). I suspect that something in the
registry in not set correctly.

*PF*
 

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