Hi Dave..
one thing that may help would be to remove the favicons from your internet explorer cache and keep them in their own folder elsewhere. Then assign the shortcut icon.
If they stay in the temp files folder, they will be lost every time you clear the cache.
Hope that helps mate :-)
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