🚀 go-pugleaf

I am using ie5, whose 'About' tells me it is:

        Version: 5.00.2014.0216
        Update Versions:;3725;

When I use tools -> Windows Update, it tells me:

        You have an older version of Internet Explorer 5 and Internet 
        Tools. If you would like to download additional components from 
        the Windows Update catalog (sic), you must first upgrade to the 
        latest version

If I say yes to the update, I then download a 470K file, ie5setup.exe,
which (so long as I am on-line) runs a procedure to download 15Mb of ie5
upgrade - seemingly, the whole ie5 package again (there are configurable
options for extra fonts, etc, and it doesn't seem to recognise which, if
any, of these I already have). Indeed, it seems no different to the
first time I downloaded ie5. It is here that I cancelled the update!

What I want to know is, can I simply upgrade using a version of ie5 for
a magazine cover disc? How will I know I have the latest version?

Is there a web site where I can download the 15Mb of files without using
the update application, so I can do it using a different, leased line,
account, and save my phone bill? What if I had two or more machines I
wanted to update?

Why can't I simply download a "patch" which will do the necessary
updates - and what are these updates?

I don't want to start another MS is shite/ brilliant war, but what
possible advantages are there for them in steering us towards working in
this way?

Short of running windows update every week or so, is there a way to be
kept up- to- date with such changes (for Windows and ie5)? Perhaps a
mailing list, or an 'announce' newsgroup?

(cross- posted; should I have asked this elsewhere?)
-- 
Andy Mabbett
        "In derelict sidings, the poppies entwine
         With cattle trucks, lying in wait, for the next time"
                                Roger Waters, 1982