Something finally pushed me over the edge and I am getting firefox now...

IE tried to open about 40 someodd tabs to the same web page at the same time and was taking up between 75% and 100% of my processor and was taking up about 100MBs more RAM every 40 seconds...
You won't be much happier with Firefox. FF is known for it's massive memory leaks.
There are still plenty of reasons to switch, though.
btw...aghstnashell is a girl? I know I haven't been around for long, but damn that's confusing...
And what's the prefered shortening of aghstnashell? Ghost? Shell? Susan?