AOL install problem

AOL went t*ts up on a friends PC so I uninstalled it from the system and then did a re-install of AOL9.0. The install completes, reboots the pc, I then start AOL and it says it needs to install some files to have AOL work correctly, click on OK and it installs files, asks to reboot, so I reboot and then restart AOL, says it needs to install some files to have AOL work correctly, installs files, says it needs to reboot ...........

Anyone any idea what is causing this? I've never used AOL before, can you just use IE with AOL instead of the AOL browser?

call AOL support ?

tried that, didn't get anywhere when I spoke to "Colin", he kept telling me to uninstall and reinstall which I'd already done. I reckon it's going to end up with a reformat and re-install of windows grrrrrrr!