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Cannot Upgrade From IE6 to IE8 - Internet Explorer

The #fail of the day goes to Microsoft for the inability to upgrade from IE6 to IE8 using the download link on their IE Home page.  You would think that Microsoft would test this scenario heavily, but I hit this problem from two different machines running IE6.  Clicking on the download link put me on a blank page with a script error, and no amount of refreshing or clearing the cache would fix it.

The only way I could eventually make the script error go away was to clear my cache, then hit back, then hit reload, and finally attempt to download.  I’m curious to see what happens next!