All Browsers Freezing on Certain Websites

I have no idea where to post this, because it involves all of my browsers on Mac OSX 10.5.3. Websites like the Scrabulous Facebook application, and my friend's website Wooohah.com just started freezing up the browsers. The page will load some of the data, and it looks like something else is trying to load, but the browser just locks up and gives me the rainbow spinny ball of death.
I've used Safari, Opera, Firefox, Minefield, Camino, all with latest versions and they all give the same response.
I thought it was something my Internet was doing, but I have no problems on the Windows machines I have in the house. I have no idea where to go on this as it's definitely the Mac only, but it's universal across all my browsers and only on certain sites. I'm not sure if they're trying to load some plugin that's crashing it.
If anyone knows anything I can try, I'm up for it. Last resort is a format/reinstall for me to see if that does anything.

Hi-
The Wooohah.com site works on my G4 with 10.5.3. in Safari.
Try another user account. If you need to, set up a new admin account (maybe call it "Test") and try.
If the problem sites work in the new account, then it is something in your user account that's fouling the works.

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Thanks for your response, I updated everything but that has not helped.
I did make a dummy user account tho and it seems that i can do everything normally within it, sooo the problem must lie somewhere on my user account.
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==
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