I've had that problem with IE in the past and it was upgrading IE every time.
Vista is good once configured, it's not much different than Windows 7 to navigate and use. I had it for ages and all the service packs fixed most things in the end.
I use Firefox for fast and safe net browsing and a built in download manager and plenty of add ons
I remove explorer associations for ftp/http/https/ and htm/html/shtml/xht/xhtml and set Firefox as default.
You can always go back to IE in a pinch.
Chrome is OK too with a built in flash-player that makes it pretty safe also but I have too many errors with it here in Australia and also navigation is a bit clunky for my liking.
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