Well... I just wish I knew what I was warning you about, because I'm still not sure just what happened. SP2 was working fine and it wasn't until I did the rest of the updates, and tried to upgrade my virus software, that I started having problems. It seems to be related to the virus software (McAfee) but it's the same stupid software we use at work and nobody else has had any problems with it!
With everything in place, the CPU usage goes to 100% everytime I try to access the internet using IE. However... loaded Mozilla Firefox and accessed the internet just fine. O.o
I even stumped the tech geek at work! ^___^
So this may be something specific to my stupid computer. O.o