Question : Why do I have to re-establish internet connection in IE after every restart?

I just rebuilt a system from scratch - formatted the disk and reinstalled Windows XP SP2.
Internet connection was working fine. Then I installed Quicken 2005 and when it tried to download updates, it said I didn't have a connection to the internet. I opened IE and it said the same thing. I had to re-run the network installation wizard. Then all seemed ok.

Until I restarted. Then I opened IE and tried to go to a site and it said there was no connection. I clicked the button for "try again" and then everything worked ok. This happens every time I reboot - it seems that I have to manually restart the internet connection.

Upon restart, the network icon in the status bar shows it's connected. I run ipconfig in a DOS window and it has correct IP address and default gateway. Yet when I try to get to the internet, I get the error described above and have to click the try again button to get connected.

Any ideas on what's going on here? Am I missing a setting somewhere?

Answer : Why do I have to re-establish internet connection in IE after every restart?

Duh! In Internet Explorer - Tools menu - Work Offline was checked! No idea how that happened!