IE goes to http://runonce.msn.com/runonce2.aspx Instead of homepage
In order to prevent this behaviour you can add the following registry keys to a user registry hive to prevent this behaviour.
Add the following registry keys which will tell IE that the config has already been run.
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main]
"RunOnceHasShown"=dword:00000001
"RunOnceComplete"=dword:00000001