whoaaa... 6 critical updates for windows 2000 was just released today... 3.8Mb is pain in the a**e to download via dialup... that is why i'm using more and more my mozilla firefox browser than the IE...
but why can't i update my win2k installation using a different browser? you see, IE has more bugs than the OS itself. a few ramblings can be found
here and
here
more details
here