msnbc news alert installer: "Unable to start browser"

[Jeremy White]

> 
> Yep.  With Microsoft stuff, they tend to call the free downloads
> 'operating system components' to make it sound more reasonable.
> They can't use that dodge with products from MSNBC, though, so
> it looks more ham-handed there.

To be fair, it's not just Microsoft - Macromedia does it too 
(check out the license for Shockwave sometime); in their case,
they do it to protect their sales in the embedded market.

Still can't say I like it much  (and watch me duck the
actual work you asked for...<g>).

Jer