If, for some outlandish reason, your IE install is hosed and you need to reinstall that fugly thing (and you don't have a prior restore point, etc., or you're just a crazy masochist), reeeeead on. Every time I tried to reinstall it, I got that prompt that said I had a newer version of IE and the install could not continue. To get around this:
- Start, Run, browse to your IE setup file
- After the path that appears in the Run box, type /Q
That should bypass the newer version of IE crap-out message. And viola! You're now Microsoft's bitch again.
