Cush, re cookies: I could not get to the CircuitCity site this am because my pc would not accept their cookie. That made me look at the various programs I have that try to control cookies...
Zone Alarm Pro: I set it to allow all cookies
Pest Patrol: it is set to allow even bad cookies, but deletes them immediately after accepting them
Mozilla Firefox: I set it to accept cookies for the originating site only.
Any bad cookies that slip through will probably be caught by my daily running of Spybot and Adaware.