Question marks instead of pictures - Mail and Safari

I have the latest Tiger software installed including Safari, but when Apple sends out e-mails they show up with blank boxes with question marks, and I get the same thing when I go to their web site.
The emails sometimes will fix themselves magically later. (I haven't a clue)
This brings up two questions:
1) What's going on with my computer.
2) How intelligent is Apple's Marketing Department, that their adds can only be read by people who already have the latest and greatest computers/software?
(That second one is rhetorical, for those that missed the sarcasm.)

Since you asked!
Adding DNS codes to your Network Settings, should gives good results in terms of speed-up as well as added security:
Open System Preferences/Network. Double click on your connection type, or select it in the drop-down menu, and in the box marked 'DNS Servers' add the following two numbers:
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
(You can also enter them if you click on Advanced and then DNS)
(An explanation of why that is both safe and a good idea can be read here: http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/opendsn-what-is-opendns-why-required-2/2587 /
Open DNS also provides an anti-phishing feature: http://www.opendns.com/solutions/homenetwork/anti-phishing/ )
Wikipedia also has an interesting article about Open DNS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDNS

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