Why does my mouse pointer change from a hand to a downward facing arrow sometimes?

why does my mouse pointer change from a hand to a downward facing arrow sometimes?

the-edmeister, you are a genious. I went to "view" then "toolbars" and de-selected "yahoo toolbar" and then moved the curser over my firefox page and it now works completely including the problem area (the top 3 cm of each screen). Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. You have no idea how good I feel know on this otherwise cold, windy and rainy day.

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