Any time I Google an item, I never click on a price finder type search engine. I don't know how to explain it, but those links have caused my computer problems in the past. I use Ad-Aware, Spybot, and AVG to keep things clean.
Try this. Run Ad-Aware to clean things up. Go to bizrate, pricegrabber, pricerunner, shopping.com, or any other site of that type. Now, run Ad-Aware again. It will pull tons of stuff off of your computer, and not just cookies.
Two things.
Amazon offers free shipping over $25 when they are the seller.
Amazon has a superb return program. I have used it, and it is stunning.