Internet Explorer displays incomplete Help/About dialog

Symtom: The IE Help/About dialog is displayed incompletely. Version info and the IE/Windows logo icons are missing. After a restart, the Help/About dialog is displayed correctly.
HTML page to reproduce the problem: test page.

Software: Windows 2000, Internet Explorer 5 (some other versions have the same problem).

Cause: IE5 gets stuck after it tries to display a JPEG image file with large XML profile data within the JPEG header.
Links to more detailed explanations: digicol.de, photo.net

Solution (client): Update your IE to a newer version or switch to Firefox.

Solution (server): Remove the large profiles from the JPEG headers.
This can be done with the following ImageMagick command:

mogrify.exe +profile "*" test.jpg

Author: Christian d'Heureuse (chdh@inventec.ch, www.source-code.biz)
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