Why do some web pages start my Windows Installer?

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Mark

Roughly 1% of the web sites that
I access cause the Windows Installer to
come up, and Installer then tries to
configure FrontPage 2000, which isn't even
open at the time. I haven't yet been able
to figure out why Installer comes up.

I'm using XP Home with IE 6.

Here are the latest three sites that caused this to
happen on my machine:

http://www.motorcycleshops.co.uk/clubstuff.htm
http://www.berkland.org/ny/meetings.htm
http://www.pksafety.com

Can you pinpoint the cause? Could it be
something distinctive in the HTML of these pages?

(I reiterate: It only happens on about 1% of
the web pages that I go to.)

Thanks in advance.





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All three of those pages appear to be created with MS Word 9 via XML using
CSS and include the following in the head source:

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

<head>
<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document>
<meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9">
<meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9">
<link rel=File-List href="./meetings_files/filelist.xml">
<link rel=Edit-Time-Data href="./meetings_files/editdata.mso">
<!--[if !mso]>
<style>
v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
..shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
</style>
<![endif]-->
<title>Title..........

I'm posting this to help those who may know WHY this is happening to you. I
can safely assume this is the cause, but I don't know why it's happening. I
viewed the pages normally. I would guess it's your browser not recognizing
XML or CSS.

Can anyone elaborate?
 
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