G4 iBook suddenly can't find ebay!

Not sure what's going on here. My brother has a 1.42 GHz G4 iBook, 512MB, running OS X 10.4.11. Since Sunday (20/11/11), when he last used eBay, he can't get to the eBay site at all! Both Safari 4.1.3 and Firefox 3.6.24 give the message that they can't find the server for eBay. It doesn't matter what link he tries to use from Google. No other sites seem to be having any problems.
Yet using the same internet connection, my own 1.67 GHZ G4 Powerbook, 1GB, OS X 10.4.11 can find and log into eBay no problem. Can anyone tell me what's going on here please? I've seen forum entries elsewhere that there were Safari problems with ebay a few years ago.
Please help me understand what might be before I go insane!!!

A list from eBay of unsupported browsers:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/browser.html#don't
For Macs, they say to use the latest versions of Safari or Firefox:
http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/browser.html
which, of course, won't work on the iBook.
Perhaps you could find help on the eBay Technical Issues Forum:
http://answercenter.ebay.com/forum.jspa?forumID=19&start=8085&anticache=12444955 69116
Good luck.

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