Only advice really is to let it pop up once and set its cookie so it's happy. I think it's supposed to be capped at once per user (maybe per day)....
Alternatively, set your pop-up blocker not to tell you when it's blocking things, but to block them silently. The blockers are usually set to bring up an alert by default - partly so that you think, "my, how useful, look how many annoying popups it's stopped", but that gets more annoying in the end I think. It's told you 100 times it's blocked a pop-up, but if it hadn't blocked any you'd only have seen the pop-up once (if you see what I mean).
Yes spacemonkey, adviva seems to be running two surveys at the moment, one on online banking and another one on internet advertising. Your observations on the cookies and script are correct, by the by. You don't by any chance want an unpaid job do you? (tee hee).
My approach to pop-ups is to let them pop up but then click the window I was looking at and ignore them if I'm not interested, leaving the pop-up sitting there behind. If you block them totally, you end up blocking useful ones too, not just ads.
Dunno really. Depends innit. Horses for courses. Different strokes. Each to their own. (runs out of similar cliches)
Cheers,
tech