I wonder if your URL hijack issue has to do with Verizon's new "service": Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results Web search "tinkering" raises net neutrality concerns by Martin H. Bosworth ConsumerAffairs.Com November 3, 2007 Subscribers to Verizon's high-powered fiber-optic Internet service (FiOS) are reporting that when they mistype a Web site address, they get redirected to Verizon's own search engine page -- even if they don't have Verizon's search page set as their default... link: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/verizon_search.html