Problem connecting to websites

Hey everybody,
I've recently been experiencing a problem connecting to certain websites. I'll get a "connecting to" or "waiting for" message from my browser but then nothing ever loads and after a few minutes I get a "timed out" error message from the browser.
What's strange is that this doesn't happen with all websites just 20 or 30% of those that I try to connect to. And, it's very consistent in that once this happens with a particular website I can never get a connection to again even if I quit or reset my browser or restart my computer. I say "once this happens" because I've noticed that some sites that I could navigate to a few days ago are now having this problem.
This definitely doesn't seem to be related to the standard Airport problems that we've all been having as I can easily and quickly get other pages to load just seconds after having this problem with a page (plus the signal fluctuation that seems to accompany the standard Airport slow down/connection drop doesn't seem to happen when I have this problem.)
Total mystery. It happens with Safari, Camino, and Firefox and always with the same pages in each. Maybe its software conflict but the only thing I've installed since this started happening is the iPhoto update that came out a while back.
I'm getting close to wiping my disk and reinstalling everything but I thought I'd check in and see if anyone else has experienced this and if there's an easier fix that's known. Thanks.
John
MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz 1GB DDR2 SDRAM Mac OS X (10.4.7) Macintosh Color Classic
MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz 1GB DDR2 SDRAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) Macintosh Color Classic
MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz 1GB DDR2 SDRAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) Macintosh Color Classic

Thanks for the reply but I don't think its a problem with the servers because I can go to another computer sharing the same internet connection and it can load these pages just fine. Then when I go back to my computer it still can't load the the exact same pages.
Furthermore, these are sites that I had no problem with before a week ago and now, once I have a connection problem with them once I can never get them to load on my computer again. It's definitely not a normal server overload problem.
I'm pretty stumped.
John
MacBook Pro 2.0 GHz 1GB DDR2 SDRAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) Macintosh Color Classic

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