Login Window Blank When Connecting to Public Hotspot

I have a new MBA running 10.7.2.  Whenever I go into an airport, the open Wi-Fi is detected, and then I am presented with a pop-up screen whose title says "Joining....ABC Wifi" (ABC = whatever the hotspot is).  However, the screen is completely blank.  No buttons on it or any content.  I know that this is a new feature that OSX Lion brought in, so that we wouldn't have to authenticate through a browser window, but with mine being blank, there's nothing I can do to authenticate.
When I open a browser window, all I get is a message saying the security certificate is invalid.  The two airports I use appear to be using Cisco technology for their public hotspots.
Funny thing is that it works fine on my iPad and iPhone.  But on this MBA it doesn't.  And I also tried it on a regular MacBook that I upgraded to Lion - same is

Well I've waited a few days and it looks like my discussion will end up like the rest of the unresolved discussions.
I have one last update for future Macbook Air or any Macbook user for that matter.
I am here at a Barnes and Noble and came here specifically to test out the public wifi. Nothing much has changed on my laptop since the last time I used it at the library per my original post. The one thing that did change was that I just received a UEFI update this morning. For those of you not familiar with it, it is a BIOS update.
Whether or not that had anything to do with why my Macbook Air is working now is beyond me, but I can confirm that yes it is suddenly working now. Perhaps it is because it is sometimes an intermittent issue that the threads before me died.
I would like to clarify though that when all is working correctly, a splash page pops up the moment you join the wireless network. It's not in Safari, it's in its own app/window. What this means is that you should not have to open up Safari to find the webpage although I suspect it's possible to still see it in Safari if you didn't properly accept the terms of use.
I don't want to say it's 100% yet because for me it's only been 50% success, but I hope that if anyone at Apple is listening that I hope that this issue is resolved. A Macbook Air without wireless access may as well be a car without wheels. Hopefully this car doesn't ever lose its wheels again.
Thanks.

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