Egghead: Thanks for the tip. But I hadn't wanted a site icon on my desktop. Your trick indeed worked, though the favicon came out as a firefox icon shortcut. I gave up trying to get site favicons as shortcuts on my desktop. Firefox just would not let me do that

Thanks to you too, Fastgame. I followed your directions; it worked just fine. Have saved all the instructions in your post. I clearly can't use my old way any more (no problem with that) but damme, it always used to work!!!