I don't use Windows normally, but this just looks so silly I had to try it.

I created two very simple .html files, and just dropped them onto the WinXP Desktop. Clicking on one works, and the link therein gets the other one. All with simple relative linking.


Here are the two documents, plain text files:
firstpage.html: Code:

<html>
<body>
<h1>Test Page</h1>
<a href="secondpage.html">Click here</a>
</body>
</html>


secondpage.html:Code:

<html>
<body>
<h1>Second Page</h1>
<a href="firstpage.html">Click here</a>
</body>
</html>



I even set one of them as my "home page" in IE6, which used this path for it:
C:\Documents and Settings\Mark Lord\Desktop\firstpage.html

????
What's the problem?