Google and related sites blocked?

I just got my iMac back from the Apple Store today; they had to migrate my data over to a new one, since the old one had a bad DVD drive. Anyway, everything works great...except that Google.com and all of its associated sites (YouTube, etc) are now blocked. I get a "problem loading page/unable to connect" error immediately, every time. I get the same issue with Yahoo's homepage, but searching via Firefox's search box works fine for Yahoo. Pinging google.com in Terminal works fine. I've tried accessing the sites with other computers on my network, and had no problems there. The iMac's HOSTS file is clean, too.
Any thoughts???

That was the first thing I checked; all clear. Though oddly enough, after my comp's been off for a few hours, it works now. Very strange.

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13-inch, Early 2011
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Memory: 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3
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Software: OS X 10.8.3
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