Sites showing us in UK under Snow Leopard, but we are in US

Not sure if this is a Snow Leopard issue, but it began around the same time. When we visit sites that automatically detect your location, they are showing us as being in the UK, but we are in the US. This has happened on both my Mac and my wife's Dell, so I am assuming it has something to do with our Airport Extreme.
I am not sure if Snow Leopard would change our settings in any way or not? One thing I did do was to allow OSX to automatically detect our time zone using our current location in System Preferences > Date & Time > Time Zone. I have since changed it back to our location, but it is still happening.
I am using a 2.4GHz MBP with 4GB running 10.6.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Vince

Such sites usually take a guess at where you are based upon your IP address, so its possible that your Internet Service Provider has added some new address space which you are now using.
Try the tools at http://www.whatsmyip.org/ to see if that gives you any pointers

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