Just an update....

I reformatted with the recovery discs and tried the windows update link....just for the hell of it. For some reason, MS updates seemed to think the ME machine was a MAC and tried to end me to a MAC updates page....LOL

Have no idea why MS read the machine as a MAC.....

Anyway.....I did get IE updated first and was able to get to a list of ME updates. There are 148 of them.....64 criticals....