Hello again,

After some thorough weekend investigation, I tracked down these "cookies", or references to them in the Internet Options panel, where I had "allowed" cookies from the sites that were referred to in the SpyBot listing.
If I made a deletion from that list, SpyBot no longer reported that cookie as being "stored by Internet Explorer".
Which brings me back to the original question - Cookies: Are they there or not?
I tend to think that my findings suggest not. The reported ones are "allowed", but once Privacy Guardian has done it's job they are no longer present.
Anyone care to support or contradict that theory? Is SpyBot just reading and reporting the Internet Options list?