someone tried the following

steps and said it worked:

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I finally got the searchpage.html problem fixed. First of all make sure you've deleted all of your temporary files. (C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temp) and (C:\Documents and Settings\user\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files). Next open your registry editor (go to run and type regedit) then under the edit menu click 'find' and type in c:\searchpage.html ('find next' or F3 will move to the next instance) Delete all entries that are found except for the default URL prefixes. Change the prefix entries to http://
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