MacBook won't open websites

Hi guys, got a problem here.
Today I was using safari on my macbook and suddenly the webpages stopped opening. The airport detects my home wireless connection, logs on but the websites won't open. I have restarted my mac, tried problem detecting (says everything is fine), restarted my router, but I still can't do anything. The wierdest thing is all my other computers and iphone connect just fine with the same connection.
What can I do??? It was working just fine and suddenly just stopped. Ethernet is working fine...
Help please!

did you just upgrade to 10.5.3??
did it used to work on 10.5.2?
I would check your system.log;
Go to System Profiler,
Select Software, Logs
Select "system.log" from the right panel, scroll all the way to the bottom,
if you see a bunch of kernal errors like (Beacon Lost) that is your problem.
At 10.5.3 they broke the macbook airport card it no longer sees the wireless router beacon.
If you roll back to 10.5.2 from the Leopard DVD it should work again. There is NO fix from Apple, for this to my understanding. I was hoping for a Aiport Broadcom firmware update or a patch but 10.5.4 came out a week later, nothing, same problem persists, the other day 10.5.5 came out, maybe by 10.5.96 they will fix it. Or someone will hack it back to the airport drivers used in 10.5.2.
This problem is annoying as **** and Apple is doing nothing about it. You can't take your Macbook to Starbucks or any other place and connect to their network, might as well drag out your old Toshiba with Ubuntu and take it.

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