LOL, most don't look back once they've used Firefox.

For those few sites which require IE to render properly, there is an addon for Firefox, IE Tab
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
As far as IE goes....did you install the MVPS hosts file? If so, this is not in IE itself.
Here's some info about a hosts file
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file
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