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I copied your source to my local machine, and IE7's auto-discovery kicked in fine once I changed the href to a full url, rather than a relative one:

    <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" 
          href="http://www.monteanalogo.net/atom.xml" title="Atom 1.0">

Needing a full URL seems to be an IE glitch, as the RFC on atom auto-discovery states that:

The value MAY be a relative URI, and if so, clients MUST resolve it to a full URI ... using the document's base URI

Microsoft's own publisher's guide also lists the full url in the href tag, but makes no mention of it being compulsory:

Here is an example of Atom Autodiscovery:

<head>
  <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" 
     title="your feed title here"
     href= "http://www.company.com/feedurl.xml"&gt;
</head>

ConroyP 2008-12-20 14:26:06

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