I am tired with portal favorites

Hi,
We have installed enterprise portal and added a couple of favorites,
scenario: I logged in as a super admin, went to user adminstration tab and added "create user" page to the Portal favorites. so I was able to see the corresponding link in the portal favorites iview. when i click on that link,
a file dialog window is opened asking to save or open
and when i click on "open", it pops up open with dialog asking to select a webservice or to open using existing program and I selected internet explorer, but it doesnt open
and when i click on "save", in the file save dialog, this doesnt have any file type.
I already tried for the solution in different threads in sdn forum, but my problem is not solved. many of them tell that it might be a problem with browser settings.
I can say that there is no problem with my browser, becuase i accessed two portal installations, one installation (sneak preview edition) works fine with portal favorites links where as not in when accessing ep 6.0 sp12 installation.
I am in urgent need of this as you know that favorites are important for any user.
P.S: URL links works fine in both installations.
Thank you

Hi Koduru,
I read your other post also (clicking a link in portal favorites opens in a new window?).
I tried many setings at many places but could not reproduce your error. But it seems to be a portal problem rather than anything else.
But few things i can suggest. When you say that the Portal Fav works with other installations on your same machine, then you can do the following.
1) Edit both the portal fav iViews and compare the iView properties one by one. My be you will get something here.
2) Also check whether this behaviour is only for Portal Fav iView or any other iView in Dynamic Navigation. Attach some other iView in Dyn Nav and check. I mean you can create a custom (new & diff id) Portal Fav iView and attached in Dyn Nav and check.
3) Or attach the portal fav iView in content area of a custom page and check.
4) Check the Dynamic Nav iView from Portal Framework page and check its properties and compare it with the one which is working.
These are a few things which i can think upon right now.
May be this will not solve your problem quickly but will help in searching for the exact culprit.
Regards
Gaurav Gandhi

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