Safari sporadically won't load certain sites.

So I have been sorting through the frustrations dealing with what I think is a pretty widespread issue. I chose to make a new post as all my searches found the issue tacked on to other questions, and I think this is pertinent to it's own post.
Since Leopard, Safari will at random not load one site. It will say it cannot connect to the server, and that it is either down or I am not connected to the internet. No everyone says "Thats a network issue", but it isn't. It's a Safari issue. Currently the website not working is www.apple.com, pure fun there, and as we can see, I found a way around it into the discussions. Dropping www. has no affect and both versions of the url work fine in Camino/Firefox. It simply isn't a network issue.
It's getting a bit frustrating to have no way to resolve this. Quitting Safari doesn't help, renewing the DHCP lease doesn't help. I am left at a loss. Anyone find any resolution to this?

An explanation of why that is both safe and a good idea to use those DNS settings can be read here:
http://www.labnol.org/internet/tools/opendsn-what-is-opendns-why-required-2/2587 /
Whilst in System Preferences/Network you should also turn off 'IPv6' in your preference pane, as otherwise you may not get the full speed benefit (the DNS resolver will default to making SRV queries). If you want to know what IPv6 is:
This is Apple's guidance on iPv6:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/8708.html
Click on Apply Now and close the window.
Restart Safari, and repair permissions.

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