Strangest thing ever (to me)

I suddenly can't download anything.
Alright, that's not fair to say. I can open up any webpage. But, if I try to download something from that page...no dice.
For instance, I was using Firefox and trying to download a Planbook application. I clicked on the download link...and the page just spun and spun...nothing happened.
So, I switched over to Safari. Same thing. Confused...I tried deleting Firefox and reinstalling it. I used Safari to open the firefox.com page and clicked on the download. Instead of immediately starting the download, the page just stopped. So, I clicked on the "Click here if your download doesn't start immediately" link...and at the bottom of the window in the status area, it just says "Cancelled opening page."
So, I tried to CTRL-click on it and download it that way. That worked.
Any idea what all this means? Why am I unable to download anything by clicking on it using either browser??
Please help.

K...
here are some other links I've tried to download:
http://downloads.extremesims.com/omnigroup/software/MacOSX/10.4/OmniGraffle-4.2. 3.dmg
http://downloads.extremesims.com/omnigroup/software/MacOSX/10.4/OmniPlan-1.6.dmg
http://wsidecar.apple.com/cgi-bin/nph-reg3rdpty2.pl/product=20928&cat=9&platform =osx&method=sa/solar_system.dmg.zip
http://mozmirror01.true.nl/pub/mozilla.org//firefox/releases/3.0.1/mac/en-US/Fir efox 3.0.1.dmg
Additionally, when I asked my gf to try downloading on her MacBook Pro, she was able to instantly download.
Also, I used the Disk Utility to repair all permissions. Still no help.
I did just try to download Stuff-It Expander from the Apple site...and that worked. That's the only thing that's worked all night. All the other links above failed to work after the Stuff-It link worked.

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