Thanks you guys
No Bart (or was it Sophie?) it wasn't the phishing filter though whilst it was waiting to load the phishing filter logo indicated it was checking out the site. I disabled it as I had the same thought as you but it made no difference.
In the end I downloaded the trial version of IE 8 which is what I'm now running and so far so good Insh'Allah! It's still a lot slower to load than Firefox but now just a few seconds rather than a good few minutes. It would seem that somewhere along the line some part of IE vital only for VBulltetin had got corrupted but I doubt anyone could get to the bottom of it. Weird that my wife's computer had the same prob though. I must check it to see if it's working normally.
But many thanks to everyone who has offered suggestions. It's much appreciated.
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