My current MSN Explorer version is 7.02.0011.2700. In order to continue to get my mail thru MSN Explorer (my preferred choice) I need to upgrade to 9.6. I have the disc, but have a question : Am I going to experiene troubles from not having all the upgrades that occured between these versions ?

I have not run this particular update (I'm not a user of MSN), but my best guess is that there should be no problem caused by doing this.

You can export your contacts to your local computer as a precaution against problems.

The procedure is outlined in the Options/More Options/Contacts/Export Options section of your MSN Mail Window.

Export the file as an .csv (comma separated values) file. This is a common contact list format. You can open this file type in Excel or other data base programs and you can import the contact list into MSN mail and many other mail programs.

I hope this is of some help.
Dwight