Blank white pages in Safari (until Firefox opens them)

Occasionally, pages will come up blank in Safari. (View source is also blank.) These are pages that have worked fine in the past, and they are simple HTML, with no JavaScript, etc. Refreshing and deleting history do not help.
What does help is opening the same page in Firefox (where it works fine), and then going back to refresh in Safari. It's almost as if Firefox has to show Safari the way...
Any ideas how to fix this? (I've seen other posts describing this problem, but no answers.)
Safari version: 2.0.2
Internet connection: Simple cable modem (no router)
Firewall: OS X with standard settings.
Example page: www.javatoid.net
iMac (2.0 GHz G5) & PowerBook (1.5 GHz G4) Mac OS X (10.4.2)

see this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=244605&tstart=0

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This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
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