skybov

Homophobia means: * I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian. * I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman. * I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights. * We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time. * I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room. * I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt m

*sighs*

So the entire issue turned out to be that IE had all of it's required files deleted.  I don't know how or why, it may have been malware, mother isn't exactly the brightest when it comes to avoiding computer infections.  Microsoft never got back to me after I filed a support ticket, so I'm chalking that up under incompetence as well.  I really wish an internet browser wasn't required to operate basic system operations, so I'm damning Microsoft, again.