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On a whim, I wiped out all of my cookies in IE and Mozilla and exerted rigorous control over the cookies which I allow to be stored on my machine. The number of cookies which sites try to get users to accept is simply incredible, but this led me to the observation that IE (5.5 in this case) stinks when it comes to cookie management. IE will prompt you repeatedly to accept or reject a cookie unless you decide to accept/reject ALL cookies. On the other hand, Mozilla quite thoughtfully allows a user to reject cookies on a per-site basis.