help with IE on College laptop

[khold]

My College makes each student lease a laptop as part of the tuition fee. I don't feel like reinstalling Windows or anything on the Laptop, so I am left with the default crap that the school puts on the laptop.

My question is this: They really customized Internet Explorer to hell and back on this thing, and I would like to know what I can do to remove the stuff. They have a really stupid theme applied to IE. There are brown paw prints all over IE's top option bars that go with the school's mascot. Also, you can't set a default start page besides the college's website. Any attempt at setting another start page doesn't work, it simply ends up going back to the college website. The operating system is Windows XP if that helps at all. Downloading IE and installing it over the current installation doesn't work at all.

 

[notfred]

you go to some stupid tech school or something?

 

[khold]

It's actually not a tech school (as far as specializing goes), most of the students at the school are there to get a teaching degree. I am going for a Computer Science degree and a networking degree. I forgot to list one other fun laptop customization they made:

They installed Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition. When you try uninstalling that, it asks you for a password! I just found out how to remove that by taking out certain registry keys.