Especially since flickr is now part of Yahoo.
I'm pretty sure that you should be able to use plain, unadulterated IE with SBC Yahoo, since I have a friend who has SBC Yahoo as an ISP, and on the few times I've used her computer, I haven't noticed anything odd about IE.
As for your photo... It doesn't fit my image of you, darn it.
I took your Little Ninja icon, and combined it with your Japanese and German-American background, and deduced that you looked like
Edna Mode.
Instead, that photo looks more like Jaclyn Smith. Except without the overtweezed eyebrows of her Charlie's Angels days.
Guess I'm going to have to admit that I can't guess appearances from online personas. *sigh...*
-AH
