Andrew like Martin said no worries, IE does work it's that IE is slow to adapt with newer web-standards but web-designers know those limitations and design within them.

As for getting another browser, well it's a good idea.
IE is quite often attacked by hackers and they know the holes in them, as off now their are no holes known in FF, opera and Chrome but IE8 has 2 at the moment.
These browser are also faster most of the time so simply give them a try since they are free.

I've used FF and opera, opera has the most complete package out of the box where as with FF you got a lot of plugins to customize it.
Haven't tried chrome a lot but it seems good.

Thank you Richard, please don't forget to tell us, i'm still searching myself for a good one.

Or you hope Pentax will nick the Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 lens and rebadge it. We are yelling that for years now but they aren't listening!

I've heard good things about kodak from Gwyn link
They are a tiny bit more expensive with the larger prints but the normal sized prints are cheaper though.

The DA 16-45 is also very good lens and 16mm is wide enough for most and it's a good replacement of the kitlens.
or what about the Tamron 10-24?

He said 50-150 not 50-135 Kris, so he probable means the sigma or make a mistake.
I don't believe we have someone owning the sigma here on this forum, most of them went for the Pentax DA*50-135 since it was a better offer when the price was low.
If you want the Pentax I can advice you to search outside the UK, this a good start link I know one member here who has done successful business with them.
€ 799,00 = £739,- then you also get P&P but that's ~£10 so all in all you save more then £100

As for the DA 12-24 is £665 excl. P&P more to your liking?

Some updates provide improvements instead of solving problems.
Like with the 1.3 update of the k10D, you get SDM and the ability to change iso by pressing the OK button and using the front e-dial.
Also with the last update of the k20D, it improves AF speed and SR.
All in all worthy to upgrade your camera for, it only takes 2 minutes.

yes and no, the new firmware is build off where the previous one left so it includes the lastest improvements and you don't need to install the previous version first, only the newest one.

UK link
USA link
I should write them both.

Yeah this the third version, well at least they are busy with the problems.

Have you asked Pentax, since I don't think anybody here has an answer for you.

Found something on the web about firmware version 1.01.00.13
You can find it here it seems http://www.pentax.jp/english/support/digital/k-7_s.html
The date is off though but if you check firmware version with photome it should say 1.01.00.13 instead off the previous version 1.01.00.9

The update reduce the green-line problem even more, don't know what else it does.

I couldn't test it since I don't have a K7 but it's from pentax themselves so you can trust it.
Please report if the firmware is working so that others know it works.