amznVibe - 4:08 am on Aug 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

Yes, the previous v1.x updates snuck past me as I had already allowed the toolbar to go through my firewall, thinking it was completely well behaved.

Fortunately I had saved the full executable version of 1.1.70 back in March, so ripping out the v2 version and going back to v1 was fairly easy.

Problem solved. Didn't know there was a previous discussion on self-updates, not something I normally look for (and it didn't turn up in a casual search here). Again, just a very surprising behavior compared to typical Google thinking.