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How about this?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/recommended/128bit/default.mspx
To be honest, for your own good I would contact HP and get a new install disk. They may be free if the machine is not that old. You will need it. If not now, sometime. Do you have the XP firewall on? Personally, I do not like Norton and have a hunch that is the root cause.