Problems With VB6 and IE

Alright. So I am using this to open up Internet explorer from my program

VB Code:

Set browser = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")
    browser.Visible = True
    browser.Navigate "http://www.google.com"

however im trying to do 2 things...

1) i want to be able to pull the url from the browser i just opened and display it in my program... i tried text1.text = browser.LocationURL but it didnt work...

2) i also want to be able to have a button that will direct the browser that i just opened to a different link..

any help is appreciated

Why not just use the MS Internet Transfer Control (component) to do it.

I hear this is a good tutorial Web Browser Tutorial