Last night I looked in my log file and saw I commented about using   
   Safe Mode (SM) With Networking in April and September of this year.   
   Sorry for the repetition.   
      
      
      
   This morning while in the Limited Users Account I normally use,   
   I thought to use RunAs... and select the "Administrator" selection this   
   time instead of the other Admin acct I use a lot of times to have   
   programs run with Administrator priviledges.   
      
   When Internet Explorer opened it looked like a new installation of IE.   
   Same thing when I used RunAs... for Firefox.   
      
   So I set them both up the way I wanted them to be by changing IE's   
   Search Engine to the one I like, and I added NoScript and AdBlock Plus   
   to Firefox.   
      
   It is my thinking that it may be that I couldn't use IE or Firefox in   
   SM with Networking because they never have been set up in that account   
   since I got the XP SP3 Update installed years ago. ???   
      
   I appreciate everyone comments so far, Thanks!   
      
   Later today I will use the computer in SM with Networking and report   
   what I see.   
      
   Hopefully "I" figured out why I could use PING and TRACERT in a CMD   
   session but nothing happened when I tried using a Browser in the GUI.   
      
   ... A wok is what you throw at a wabbit.   
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