Quickbooks 2001 and IE 5.5

Does anyone know of a way to get Quickbooks 2001 to run with out Internet Explorer loaded on the local machine. My company would like to use the new version, however we don not allow access to Internet explorer unless the user is logged in to our network. IE is loaded on the network, but not on the local systems. I have tried to install IE 5.5 on the local, and then remove Iexplore.exe, but that did not work either. Any other help or thoughts????