blocked sites?
 

for some reason certain sites i get all broken images on, like they are partially blocking me. i first i thought it was the hosts file in windows, like something kazaalite would mess with. but the hosts file looks clean. sites i have poor access/no images include...

amazon.com
news.com
virtuagirl.com
zdnet.com

these are just some of the ones i've noticed having problems with recently, there are probably more. Any ideas on how to fix this? other computers on this network don't have the same problem.

Look in the meta tags of those sites to see if they are blocking certain fire walls? We had a problem with Norton, McAfee and XP with this a while back.