Before your call to ShowBrowserBar, fetch the value of the WebBrowser "Visible" property, which we know should return as BOOLEAN TRUE ... then turn it around and recycle it as your second parameter to ShowBrowserBar method call ... i couldn't believe this actually worked the first time i tried it too !

break on

$ie = createobject("internetexplorer.application")

$ie.navigate("http://www.kixtart.org")

while $ie.busy and not @error loop

$ie.visible = 1

$true = $ie.visible

$ie.showbrowserbar("{EFA24E62-B078-11D0-89E4-00C04FC9E26E}",$true)

$ie = 0

exit 1

-Shawn