Dreaded "cannot connect to youtube" but only over WiFi. Twitterific bad to

Okay, so here's the deal... for some reason on my home WiFi, my iPhone (and my wife's) suddenly isn't working right.
I get the "cannot connect to YouTube" error in the YouTube app. I get a "Twitter API Error - the connection to Twitter failed with 'can't find host'" error in Twitterific. Scrabble won't let me connect to Facebook. I can only assume there are other problems as well.
Here's the deal - it's only happening while connected to WiFi. I turn it off and use 3G, and it all works fine. Thing is, I want to use my WiFi connection. Any thoughts on why this suddenly started happening? Worked fine yesterday. I've reset both my DSL modem and my wireless router to no avail. Nothing has changed since then.
(My DSL is through Embarq)
Any thoughts?

Oh yeah, forgot to mention that most everything else is working fine on it. My email is coming through, and regular Safari stuff is working.

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Even the youtube website works fine via safari but the videos WILL NOT PLAY.
I have tried all the hit or miss speculative solutions that people claim work for them:
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*Hard reset the phone
*Power on power off
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*Full reset of settings
*Trying different networks
*Connecting to the computer and synching the phone and the apps
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It IS a problem with my iPhone. Anything that causes one of the built in operating applications to fail frequently under normal use whether or not it happens on every device consistently is absolutely by definition a bug.
+Explain why the alleged bug is not on every iPhone then ? This is the bit that you fail to explain in every post you make.+
It may not be on every phone but it definitely is on MANY, what triggers it is unknown. Microsoft releases hundreds if not thousands of bug fixes every year. Why don't all the HUNDREDS of millions of Windows users all experience every single bug? By your logic none of these bugs exists because every single user doesn't experience them. I can't remember the last time I personally experienced one of the bugs that all these mountains of bug fixes I download through windows update automatically correct so I guess none of those bugs actually exist.
+I have read a lot more articles by people who think the world is flat and that means nothing. There are 10 million odd iPhones, 50 people isn't a conclusive fault. explain why 9,999,950 of them appear to work fine?+
There are thousands of people with this problem. With a problem like this a person with even shred of intellect would read a few posts from a few different sources and come to an informed conclusion on the issue rather than dedicate the next six months of their life to reading every single thing ever written about it. Once you see the pattern is exactly the same even in 10 plus posts and it's obvious there are THOUSANDS more you can conclude it's not an isolated incident.
+Thats hardly conclusive - there are youtube video's on how to make an egg custard but that doesn't mean nobody can make one without instruction, or that all egg custards made are defective somehow.+
Inappropriate and just flat out wrong analogy. If there was a "how to make custard when it fails in a specific way consistently" then your analogy would be appropriate. The "how to FIX x" youtube video is not analogous to "how to use your iphone" or "how to do x." In any event comparing egg custard to an iphone is clearly apples to oranges - or more like apples to nuclear reactors.
+Don't bother quoting Google Stats - you can get hits on every search string you put in, and one post gets copied again and again and comes up as multiple hits.+
Really? I had no idea google one of the most successful companies in the world had such a faulty and defective search engine that it gives phony results. Have you told them? Maybe they will hire you to fix it.
You may get SOME hits for any garbage you put in (not really ANY but a lot of garbage) but they won't be very many.
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