Today, apparently the IE 7.0 update made it into a Windows XP patch. I say ‘apparently’, because while it appeared to be installing right (plus it deleted the previous Beta version of IE 7 I had installed a couple of months ago), upon restart, I found out that the original IE 6.0 had been ‘reinstated’ from the realms of Windows Uninstall Labyrinth.
I’m not kidding. I guess this may serve as a warning to others: if you have a beta version of IE 7.0 installed, consider uninstalling it first before accepting the Tuesday patch. If that didn’t help either, then there’s probably a bug in the Windows Update system.
11/21/06: Huzzah: the IE7 update finally made it through!