Summary: When trying to access Amazon.com using Internet Explorer 6,
IE takes an incredibly long time to load (if it ever loads at all) ...
load times are on the order of minutes, not seconds.  The IE "flag"
icon (upper right corner) shows continuous activity during that time,
but little if anything ever appears.

System information:

* Dell Inspiron 4100 (laptop), Pentium III, 1.13 GHz, 512MB RAM
* Windows XP Professional SP2, version 5.1.2600
* Internet Explorer 6, version 6.0.2900.2180.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519

Stuff I've tried:

* I can successfully use Firefox (1.5.0.4) on the same machine to
access Amazon.com.  (This seems to indicate to me that the issue is
something within IE.)

* Deleting all temporary files (cookies and cached files) has no effect.

* Tried searching for HOSTS file(s) on the machine; the only ones I
can find with the name HOSTS only have one entry for "localhost" at
127.0.0.1.

* ipconfig /flushdns has no effect.

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Clarification of Question by jkhuggins-ga on 02 Jul 2006 11:18 PDT

This is probably implicit in the above, but I've not observed this
behavior with any other website (other than amazon.com, that is). 
I've tried poking around amazon.com's help pages, but their FAQs are
more concerned with order placement than browser performance.

Reinstall IE and get version 7.0 ;)