A setting is not allowing me to go to the website I want

I am running IE 8 Beta on WinXP Home SP3. When I type in 'maps.live.com' it
defaults to 'maps.live.com.AU' I live in Australia. I have cleared Cookies,
History, disabled Autocomplete but still it happens. I was running IE 7 but
hoped the upgrade might solve the problem. The reason I do not want
'maps.live.com.AU' is that I cannot access my collections in Virtual Earth
from that URL.

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Peter wrote:
> I am running IE 8 Beta on WinXP Home SP3. When I type in 'maps.live.com'
> it
> defaults to 'maps.live.com.AU' I live in Australia. I have cleared
> Cookies,
> History, disabled Autocomplete but still it happens. I was running IE 7
> but
> hoped the upgrade might solve the problem. The reason I do not want
> 'maps.live.com.AU' is that I cannot access my collections in Virtual Earth
> from that URL.