I usually try to mimic the ideology of "If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space" while our architects are mostly like "If there is no SP1 yet, no way it's going to production" so you can see the difference of opinion here.
Recently in order to follow the cutting edge philosophy, I used Windows update to download the December 2005 security updates and started having all kinds of issues. The fixes were for
But it ended up causing
And as defined on google groups
As well as in Microsoft IE Blog
So, what fixed it? In my case a registry key change since I was running IE 7 beta 1 side by side.
Richard All of the problems I was seeing were due to a registry key created by running IE7 Beta 1 in side-by-side mode. Deleting the registry key has resolved all of the issues.
IE December Security Update – addressing scattered reports of odd browser behavior
So did I learn the lesson? nah.... Life is good at the edge.