[digitalreefer]

Quote: Originally Posted by fishywoo digitalreefer, I take that back. It looks like the Earthlink modem probably is a router in itself. I got instructions about how to set it to bridge mode, but before I decide to do something like that I ran a little test with my laptop. I plugged the laptop into the same wired port the desktop was in (and disabled the wireless connection). Laptop still shows MR-hosted images in all their glory while the desktop doesn't. Sigh. Also, thanks for your explanation about what video cards do. Was thinking of buying a new, 128 MB video card, but will save myself the $ for now.

My mistake, I thought you said the laptop was having the same problem. The other thing I like doing to rule out possibilities is verify the Windows system files. You may need your Windows XP disk for this, but you'll go to start -> run and type cmd
This will bring up a console window where you'll type: sfc /scannow
This ensures that all Windows files are accurate and will correct any discrepancies. Since it seems to be happening in both browsers, it may be a problem with the underlying files.