System went nuts and directory names became garbage. Windows was gone and when I come up in dos it says theres no operating system so I reloaded using W98 upgrade. Before it would start it did a disk scan and renamed a lot of directories because of garbage names. Now windows comes up and it looks like my stuff is still, and everything looks like before except when I dial into the internet I get a connection but when I start Internet Explorer no matter what web page I try to go to it comes back and says it can't find it. I'm connected OK just cant browse any websites. Anybody know what the problem might be?

can you ping your ISP or any valid internet address?

Try going to Control Panel Add/Remove Programs, select Internet Explorer, click remove. It will then give you an option to "repair".

Check out this link. It sounds as if it might be your problem.

http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm

Forgot to mention I had already re-loaded IE 5.5 and after that I did the repair on it and neither worked.

I downloaded the lspfix that JayT suggested and ran it and now everything works fine! Thanks JayT, that was right on, handy little prog to keep around!