Cannot browse with Safari, but Firefox is working

Hi. We've got an iMac G4 (2003) running OS 10.5. I can open Safari, and can get to my Google home page, but anything after that gets "stuck". Any other website we try to navigate to doesn't load. The beach ball starts spinning. Email app is working fine. Firefox is working fine - and very speedy. Is there any way to re-set Safari? Any files I can dump to get this working again?
Thanks!

I am having a similar problem. Web pages (particularly image-intensive ones) don't fully load and stop with error messages and graphics missing; however, when I use Firefox they load perfectly.
I have had Bellsouth DSL service to my house 4 times prior to realizing that Firefox worked while Safari didn't. This happens the same on all 4 macs in the house. When I boot up in Windows using Bootcamp, IE Explorer works perfectly as well.
it is beyond frustrating. Anyone have any ideas???

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