I highly doubt it is an IE7 issue.

In the *messed up* identities, in View | Current View, is Show all messages
/and/ Group messages by conversation checked?

Have you tried msnews.microsoft.com for reading MS newsgroups?

Setting up Outlook Express Newsreader for MSNews:
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/ou...snewreader.htm
And:
http://www.insideoe.com/resources/co...tm#setupmsnews
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"C.Wilder" wrote in message
erio.net...
Recently all the posts in all my subscribed groups started showing up as
replied to with no original. Every thread starts with

I tried everything I could think of which was to remove all the settings.
I removed email and Newsgroup accounts and left them idle for a few days
to decide what to do. I have created new IDs now and all seems well except
for the previously messed up identities which I would like to use again. I
added new accounts thinking everything had to be fine now but those same
IDs even though they are setup to subscribe to different newsreaders and
email providers than they had been before still show the posts to be in
the same corrupt state as before. This does not occur with Agent
Newsreader software set up the same so it must be an Outlook Express
issue.

Of coarse this is just one more issue that I feel has arisen from the
infection of the I.E. 7 malware update. My system has been puking on a
regular basis ever since that thing happened. I haven't found anyone with
this problem in any search of Google. Am I looking at a complete fresh
install of IE?

Thanks for any tips.

CW.