Favicon in IE

Hello,
Thanks for the help on my other problem. Very handy.
I've come across something else as well.
The Favicon that I have made appears in Firefox but not IE, do I need to add something to the code to make it work in both browsers.
The image is called favicon.ico
and the code I have put in is:
<link href="Images/favicon.ico" rel="icon" />
Thanks for your thoughts.

It's not that the site needs to be marked as a bookmark, it's that IE is remembering a past visit/s to that site when there was no favicon and until ALL that history is overwritten, the favicon will not display.
To test, have someone who has never been to the site visit it. Most likely the favicon will show up on their machine but not yours, if you had ever visited the site on line before. So it's not that it doesn't show up in IE right away... it does, just not on your machine.
So clear the cache, deleteing all files, cookies, and history, delete the site from bookmarks, favorites, and every other place where you may have stored a record of ever having visited the site.
The re-test.
Best wishes,
Adninjastrator

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