Let me first start off by stating that I realize that most parts of the program launch the default browser to access the web.  However, there are a few places that when accessed (inside the program -- not the forums, of course), will force IE to open to go to the web page.

The part that comes to mind (because it just reminded me to post this to the forum) is when you "View Contributors".  When you click on "View Contribution notes" (yes this is a capitalization error also) or when you click to view a users site by clicking the "Site: click to open", they do not open your default browser, they open IE (whether it is your default or not).

Now I realize that approximately 83% of the people would not even realize that this is an issue as they use IE for everything, but those of us who opt not to use IE (or cannot for one reason or another), it opens this program exclusively, like it or not.

I am not sure if this was some far out requirement I am not aware of, but as the links for Contribute Profile, Invelos Website (sub-menu) and the Other Websites (sub-menu) will launch Firefox (in my case), I do not see any reason for any part of application to specify IE.

Now that Vista does not use IE to perform Windows Updates any longer, I would like to lock down that bit of bloat code to never operate.

Thanks Ross, this does make sense.  I knew that the layouts were done using HTML but did not know they used the IE rendering engine. 

Annoying as it is, I guess I will just have to get used to it