I just got this e-mail from a friend with a Dimension 4400 running Windows XP home. He's on a dialup. Any ideas?:

When I checked for XP updates tonight the page's look had changed, and I had to take another step to look for critical updates. But I couldn't go there because of something called error message 0x80072EFD.
The troubleshooter and another self-help category didn't help, although I found some info at this site:
 
http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/112187.html
 
But for crying out loud, why should I have to jump through so many hoops? I don't even understand most of what the guy is talking about, and I don't want to mess with any firewall. What if that causes other problems?
Do you think this headache part of Microsoft's shift to the new service pack?