Imported From: http://groups.google.com/group/in-portal-bugs/browse_thread/thread/d15e08199fb6ecd3#
In-Portal has it's own *favicon.ico file, located in "core/admin_templates/img" folder. This icon is used when In-Portal based website is added to favorites and also on the left on website address in web browser.
Internet Explorer doesn't like that much and it requires that "favicon.ico" file will be placed in root installation folder.
I can see that, because I still got requests to "favicon.ico" file in root folder of installation no matter if I have specified other path in each page HTML.
In result we should have 1 version of "favicon.ico" file for both admin console and front-end and not 2 files with identical content.
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