It is designed this bloody way on purpose!
Here is the fix: Size the Internet Explorer window as you want it--even at its maximum. Hold down Shift and close the window (click the X at the far right of the Title bar). Now every time IE opens, the window will be at that size.
I found this tip here;
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/arti...,105821,00.asp .
I'm not sure if this is the right fix, but I followed a link from the above page and got this page that seems to describe the problem exactly:
http://www.pcworld.com/resource/arti...3,pg,33,00.asp .
Looks like pretty good site!