OK, Pieter ...
I did the Agent Ransack search. (It did take a while.) I'm pasting the results below. The first time I saved the results to the clipboard, I left the checkmark in the "Contents" box, and it turned out to be huge. (121 pages when I pasted it into MS Word.) So I saved it again with just the File Name checked.
I looked quickly through the list of files found, (which I sorted by Location ... I hope that's OK.), and I'm afraid they all look like the results of all my own troubleshooting activity. As you can see, I've done lots of searchs on Google for the "69.50.160.100", and through that effort did find posts from several other people (on other forums as well) who are also having this problem.
The Registry Backup files you see in the list are ones that I made before I deleted entries from the Registry. (I was taught to always backup the Registry before making any changes.) In my Registry search I did find two "69.50.160.100" Data fields under the Value "FirstHomePage". And that Value did not appear in the Registry on my notebook PC (also Win2K), so I thought I really had something there. Unfortunately after deleting those entries, the problem kept recurring, so ... that wasn't it.
Anyway, as I said ... this is a little over my head. Here's the Agent Ransack results. Let me know if you want me to post the content from any of these results.
Thanks again! Looking forward to hearing from you with your thoughts.
Jeff
And ... Merry Christmas! Based on your time zone, I think it's already tomorrow there!
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\index.dat (240 KB, 12/24/2004 4:07:54 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist012004121320041220\index.dat (48 KB, 12/21/2004 6:55:58 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist012004122020041221\index.dat (96 KB, 12/21/2004 5:35:24 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist012004122120041222\index.dat (32 KB, 12/22/2004 6:04:46 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist012004122220041223\index.dat (32 KB, 12/23/2004 7:51:58 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist012004122320041224\index.dat (32 KB, 12/24/2004 6:39:08 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\History\History.IE5\MSHist012004122420041225\index.dat (64 KB, 12/24/2004 2:55:36 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temp\History\History.IE5\index.dat (128 KB, 12/17/2004 9:22:42 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temp\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat (400 KB, 12/17/2004 9:22:42 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\index.dat (2768 KB, 12/24/2004 4:07:54 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\0X2Z4567\index[1].php (26 KB, 12/24/2004 4:07:26 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\0X2Z4567\showthreaded[2].php (24 KB, 12/20/2004 7:33:38 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\0X2Z4567\showthreaded[5].php (25 KB, 12/20/2004 7:49:42 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\43TVQ2ZP\ads[1].win (5 KB, 12/20/2004 7:49:38 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\43TVQ2ZP\dosearch[2].php (20 KB, 12/20/2004 8:28:48 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\43TVQ2ZP\index[1].php (97 KB, 12/24/2004 2:26:20 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\43TVQ2ZP\index[3].php (58 KB, 12/24/2004 2:23:02 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\43TVQ2ZP\index[5].php (53 KB, 12/24/2004 3:05:02 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\43TVQ2ZP\index[6].php (106 KB, 12/24/2004 3:14:34 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\43TVQ2ZP\postp396936[2].html (191 KB, 12/20/2004 7:44:12 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\43TVQ2ZP\showthreaded[4].php (25 KB, 12/20/2004 7:46:36 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\8KKM85IN\index[1].php (83 KB, 12/24/2004 10:43:24 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\8KKM85IN\index[4].php (101 KB, 12/24/2004 3:01:20 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\8KKM85IN\index[6].php (21 KB, 12/24/2004 2:29:22 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\8KKM85IN\index[8].php (106 KB, 12/24/2004 3:05:26 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\A1MFIHAH\index[1].php (97 KB, 12/24/2004 2:22:12 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\A1MFIHAH\showflat[2].php (62 KB, 12/20/2004 7:49:00 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BRX7VHKW\ads[1].win (5 KB, 12/20/2004 7:33:30 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BRX7VHKW\custom[1].htm (9 KB, 12/20/2004 7:48:58 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BRX7VHKW\index[2].php (33 KB, 12/20/2004 7:26:02 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BRX7VHKW\index[3].php (88 KB, 12/24/2004 10:44:56 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BRX7VHKW\index[5].php (93 KB, 12/24/2004 10:51:12 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BRX7VHKW\index[7].php (50 KB, 12/24/2004 3:01:36 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BRX7VHKW\search[1].htm (14 KB, 12/20/2004 7:44:00 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BRX7VHKW\search[2].htm (12 KB, 12/20/2004 7:49:38 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\BRX7VHKW\showflat[2].php (45 KB, 12/20/2004 8:12:32 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\RU43FXSH\index[1].php (14 KB, 12/20/2004 7:27:56 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\RU43FXSH\index[2].php (83 KB, 12/24/2004 10:44:32 AM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\RU43FXSH\index[4].php (58 KB, 12/24/2004 2:30:08 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\RU43FXSH\search[1].htm (13 KB, 12/20/2004 7:25:56 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\RU43FXSH\search[2].htm (13 KB, 12/20/2004 7:43:50 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Y1R45W7U\index[2].php (31 KB, 12/20/2004 7:28:04 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Y1R45W7U\index[3].php (101 KB, 12/24/2004 2:53:16 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Y1R45W7U\index[5].php (106 KB, 12/24/2004 3:05:48 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\Y1R45W7U\showthreaded[3].php (25 KB, 12/20/2004 7:46:26 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ZZB6LESC\index[5].php (97 KB, 12/24/2004 2:30:54 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ZZB6LESC\postt90403[2].html (63 KB, 12/20/2004 7:32:22 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ZZB6LESC\search[1].htm (12 KB, 12/20/2004 7:33:30 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ZZB6LESC\search[2].100 (6 KB, 12/20/2004 7:25:48 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ZZB6LESC\search[2].htm (6 KB, 12/20/2004 7:43:48 PM)
C:\Documents and Settings\Jeffrey Rubenstein\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\ZZB6LESC\showthreaded[3].php (24 KB, 12/20/2004 8:17:02 PM)
C:\Registry Backups\Registry Backup 200412230720.reg (56806 KB, 12/23/2004 7:20:50 AM)
C:\Registry Backups\Registry Backup 69.50.160.100 entry 1.reg (4 KB, 12/23/2004 7:27:10 AM)
C:\Registry Backups\Registry Backup 69.50.160.100 entry 2.reg (3 KB, 12/23/2004 7:28:56 AM)
C:\Registry Backups\Registry Backup 69.50.160.100 entry 3.reg (3 KB, 12/23/2004 7:29:28 AM)