What's on your Visual Studio Start Page?
Call me Mr. Observant....but I just noticed that for some reason my VS2008 start page is set to some Sql Server Rss that contains REALLY out of date information (see:http://msdn.microsoft.com/sql/rss.xml)....so my question to you is what do you have as your start page RSS feed? On another box I had the DotNetKicks feed...but I always got an error when I clicked on a link in that window so I stopped using it after a bit.