I recently cleaned up my system with the great help of Broni. Thank you again
I made a few changes during the process beginning with completely removing Zone Alarm Internet Security, adding Avast for AV and Comodo for firewall, and also ran all updates for Windows (it had been years on that one!) and now am using MSIE 7.0. I've had no problems at all except that the popups are driving me crazy! I dont know if Zone Alarm was catching them before or if its the new version of MSIE causing it? Any suggestions on a separate program that would stop them? I never had this problem before. Thanks!