Many online service providers are ceasing to support older versions of Internet Explorer, so that might be your problem. If possible, try updating to the latest version (but you can't do that if you're using an old version of Windows, such as XP).
Far better though, just use a decent browser (which most definitely excludes
any version of IE!). Like you, I can't really get along with Chrome but I love Firefox (which is sufficiently similar to IE in it's appearance to make the transition really easy). Why not give it a try?
http://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/new/