I'm happy with my username, and don't intend to wirite to the DB directly, that makes it way way to easy to break things. I might do some reading to get stat at some stage but I'll let you know before I try anything and I'm not ready for that yet. I need to look at the tables and how they are indexed etc. before I try anything.

I'll have to try IE 6 tomorrow. I don't have a computer at home with it installed. There are lots of CSS bugs in older versions of IE ( ie pre IE 7 ) so I'm guessing it is the result of one of these, but they are well documented so I should be able to find something.