I don't use IE6 all that much these daze, as I am a tab-oholic and so have gravitated mostly to recent FireFox ESR 24 series and current PaleMoon on my newer PCs where I do most of my browsing.
Scripts have not been something which I have addressed much, but to improve performance and reduce headaches, since sometime last year I DO run Adblock Plus with FireFox (including with FF10 on that Thinkpad with Win2K), and with SeaMonkey on my Vista PC, and I now run the PaleMoon fork of ABP called 'Adblock Latitude' with any PaleMoon installs on my Vista & XP units.