ebay toolbar - is it becoming crapware ? ...

Has anyone got the "heads-up" on what happens when I click on my ebay

toolbar, to go to the ebay.co.uk,

When I clicked on it tonight there seemed to be some attempt to redirect me

to

www.rover.ebay.....lotsofgobbledygookhttp://www.ebay.co.uk\Moregobbledygook

..... and I got an IE7 "Page cannot be displayed" ..MVP hosts file :-)

....perhaps ?

or, if you like show me ebay "within" another page, sort of thing. I did a

quick Google on it and got the impression that www.rover.ebay.co.uk is an

affiliate of ebay.

It seems that one cannot click on the "ebay" in the ebay toolbar to get

straight to ebay any more, i.e. you have to type it in yourself or add it to

Favourites ?

(bearing in mind that one is encouraged to install it because of the

"security" benefits i.e. it is supposed to alert you if you are directed to

spoofed ebay web-sites).

TIA

regards, Richard