What makes internet explorer 6 continue to require a program to load?

[greengoo]

I am running IE 6 on my computer and every time I start the internet, it asks me to load some for of flash player.  I allowed it to do so and it still asks every time.  THen it always"encounters an error" when I open a new window(hyperlink) and then close it.

[Evilpixie]

I think you are running into an issue that is dealing wtth the patent fight between Microsoft and Sun.  I was having the same type of problem and got it resolved by installing a patch that Microsoft put out specifically for this:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=B7D9801B-4FB5-492E-903E-3400ABF1D731&displaylang=en

This website explains the issue more thoroughly (down at the bottom):
http://capitalhead.com/1239.aspx