The Coding Ain't Done 'Till Google Won't Run

If you love and use Google Desktop as much as I, don't let Microsoft "upgrade" your Explorer version to the 7 series.  Since I fell into their trap the Google desktop search function has been inoperable, and in order to find things I've had to use the clunky antiquated Search feature of windows.  This is really frustrating.  I doubt that it's a coinkydink that Microsoft is pushing its search engine Live.com so hard at the same time this "upgrade" is foisted on the unsuspecting public.  The one thing Bill's minions have never understood is that making something more complicated is not an improvement regardless of how many features are added.  Windows won't let me uninstall version 7 to reinstall 6, either.  Rats!  If anyone knows a fix or a workaround, please let me know.