Editing IE History

I am trying to write a program that edits a user's IE history and cookie storage according to parameters set by the user. The cookie part was relatively easy, but I am running into problems with the history. Even if I start the program out with a Directory object initialazed to the folder in my computer where I know the history information is stored, and jut try to list the existing files in that folder, I find that the history does not appear to exist. Obviously, it is protected in some way and I am going about the accessing of it entirely wrong. Can anyone help me with this?