VulcanCruiser

Does anyone know if the Internet Options applet can be removed. Is this applet and all of its settings only used for Internet Explorer? I removed IE from my install and all seems fine, Firefox is running great. I know the applet is only a cpl file and can be deleted, but what about all of the registry keys holding all of the values. Firefox comes with its own Internet Options applet built in. I remember removing IE from Win98 and that included removing the applet and the reg keys, but this is XP were talking about!!