I don't believe IE has a home page option. I simply hit the tabs button and close any pages I'm done with before leaving IE. If you close them all, a blank tab will open by default. As to updates, you must install the Zune software client on your PC. If you've done that and the phone connects and syncs through it, you should be able to go to the Phone tab (while the phone is plugged in to the PC, of course) to kick off the update. If it doesn't say anything about an available update, you can get the Zune software to check by going to Settings/Phone (again, while the phone is connected to the PC). There is an option to check for updates there, but i can't remember what it is since I'm not at my PC. If you have trouble with my instructions, let me know and I'll see what I can do to help when I'm not almost asleep. :D