I'm using IE for form entry in a couple of projects.

Here's one I prepared earlier.

It's a little more complicated than your needs, but you should be able to use it to teach yourself the new COM semantics.

I use a pair of hidden form status variables to control the execution of KiXtart and IE. These inform the relative part to do thngs like "write the information to file", and "initialise the form variables" etc.