Please Help....Cookie problem with detail explanation

[computer_iliterate]

I narrowed down the problem but I need help solving
the "cookie" problem. First, I use bluelight.com as my
ISP. I use Internet Explorer 5.0 and i'm an eBay user. I
use Windows 2000 Professional.
Now for the steps and problem: 1) I sign into my ISP, 2) I
go to eBay.com and sign-in, 3) The next page after signing-
in gives me three primary links to click on: item I last
looked at, my ebay and sell your item. When I click
on "item I last looked at" and "sell your item" everything
works fine. However, when I click on "my ebay" (which is
the most important option for me) I get the white page
that reads something like, "page cannot be displayed".
After trial and error, when I do the following steps AFTER
the "page cannot be displayed" appears then "my eBay" will
work. These are the steps: a) I will click on the back
button and the three above options will reappear, b) then
go into windows explorer>c drive>documents and
settings>lisa>cookies. Then I will delete all cookies
except for the index folder. After those steps, then I go
into WINNT>temporary internet files>content.IES. Then I
will delete all cookies in that folder.
After doing the above steps of deleting the cookies then I
proceed to click on the "my eBay" option and it works
perfectly. Off the top of my head, it will continue to
work properly 90% of the time even if I exit "my eBay"
then surf the web then re-enter "my eBay" during the SAME
SESSION. But the "my eBay" page will almost certainly not
load properly when I reboot my machine. So the question
is: What do I need to do in order for me not to have to do
these repetitious steps when I want "my eBay" page to load
properly each and everytime.
Thank you in advance.
PS-I'm hoping upgrading to IE 6.0 is not my only possible
option.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Not sure if this is related, but note that IE 5 is old old old stuff at this
point. What's the reason you don't want to use IE6 SP1?

 

[computer_iliterate]

Thank you for your response. I'm the 2nd owner of this
laptop. I've owned it for about 3 years now and have
never had problems. My main conerns are that when I
upgrade from IE 5.0 to IE 6.0 that there will be software
and/or hardware incompatiblities with the upgrade. Also,
through the grapevine I hear that IE 6.0 has some "corks"
wrong with it. For these reasons, I'm a little hesitate
but I am possibly willing to upgrade if that is a
possibility of solving my issue. Is that your suggestion?
Are there other possibilites to my problem?
Thank you in advance.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

All I can say is that I've been using IE6 for a LONG time and have had no
problems with it. It fixes lots of problems in 5.x. Hardware
incompatibilities w/a browser upgrade? Highly unlikely. Software? Can't
think of anything you'd be using that would be a problem. Of course you do
regular backups now, don't you? <g>