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I know this was posted a while ago, but I wan't to bring attention to it again. You can block the majority of all ads (not just pop-ups) simply by downloading and replacing your hosts file. The best thing is that it's not limited to IE, it will even block annoying ads in apps like AIM.
This site has good instructions and a fairly complete hosts file: