My favorite list, (click favorites), used to sport nice color icons; for each site, then one day they disappeared....what went wrong? How can I get them back.......?

I'm not sure what you did to lose all yours favicons in IE Explorer, but to get them all back, use the Freeware program AM-DeadLink. You can find it here:

http://www.aignes.com/deadlink.htm

It also works with Firefox and Opera browsers.