I finally changed to Firefox and like it much better than IE, except my Hotmail inbox doesn’t format as well.
If Hotmail supports POP and SMTP (Yahoo Mail does), you might want to try Mozilla’s Thunderbird mail client. It’s available for free at the Firefox site.
Get yourself a better email service...for free. Try out www.fastmail.fm . Even the free accounts will bring your hotmail to you. You can choose to leave it on their servers, or bring into your local machine. Still free. Paid for accounts are even more powerful and more flexible.