Safari failing on pages where Firefox doesn't

Hi
I am having this weird problem. I thought for a while that my internet was playing up when some pages, but not others, would open properly.
The bad pages would just give the error "Safari can't find the server".
But then I discovered the same pages would open fine in Firefox.
Any thoughts?

Use 'Pacifist' to install a new copy of Safari from the Mac OS X Update 10.4.11
<http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/6812/pacifist>
Mac OS X 10.4.11 Update (PPC)
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10411updateppc.html>
Mac OS X 10.4.11 Update (Intel)
<http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/macosx10411updateintel.html>
Tom

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