MacBook Pro won't download, taken to dark gray screen instead.

When I click on a download link or pdf file link I am taken to a dark gray screen instead of starting the download or viewing the pdf. This just started happening. I haven't made any changes and installations to my Mac. I can right click and choose the "Download Linked File" and it will download fine but it's a pain when I am just trying to view an online PDF.
I'm running MacBook Pro 10.6.2 bought in Jan 09. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

I can provide screenshots of the problem. In this example I tried to download flash player from Adobe. http://www.biggfx.com/example1.jpg When I click the "Agree and install now" button I am taken to the dark gray webpage which normally I am not redirected to another page just the automatic download begins. http://www.biggfx.com/example2.jpg As you can see in the address bar this is the .dmg page where the download is suppose to start. Nothing happens. No download to my desktop or my download folder.
Usually I can just right click the link button and save the file to my desktop. In this situation I am unable to because the button also acts as an agreement.
This is the same situation when I click on a .pdf link, instead of seeing the pdf in the window, it's just gray.
I've rebooted, relaunched and tried different browsers. Same problem, although in firefox I get a white page not gray.
Hope this helps.
Thank you!

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