Safari won't connect

Hello,
Safari, as of this morning, is failing to connect to any webpages. However, I do have a valid IP address, and I can use any other app (Firefox, Adium, Mail, etc) to connect to the internet. I've tried resetting Safari, trasing everything in the Safari folder, and erasing Safari's preference file. Nothing works. Any suggestions would be wonderful.
Will

The same happened to me this morning (02/25). Mail.app connects, and other browsers connect as well. So far, only Safari and Software Update appear to have problems.
I rebooted, changed IP settings, connected both directly and through a router, reset Safari, and ran Network Diagnostics (which doesn't find any problem).
Both Software Update and Safari eventually return a Timed Out error (-1001).
Has anyone tried anything else?

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Today,
None of our Macintosh (by Apple) devices will connect to the internet. Actually, only Safari says it won't connect to the internet.
If I run Terminal on our Macbook, I can ping yahoo.com, google.com, etc... Also, Skype works just fine. However, when we run Safari, no web page will load and we get the error screen saying that the computer is not connected to the internet. Running diagnostics (forget where it's located on the computer) says we are indeed connected (which I could tell from Skype and pinging).
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