Taskbar buttons are disappearing

Several times in the past couple of weeks, taskbar buttons have mysteriously disappeared. This is apparently XP, where the buttons are rectangular, and each one represents a web site. On another site, I was advised to use Alt-Tab, and that usually helped, but once, it would only allow me to go to the two windows whose buttons were there. The missing buttons mysteriously reappeared in most cases (usually on the right, regardless of where they had been before) , or at least the windows were still there when I clicked on the red X in the upper right corner for the rest.
One clue is that when an ad was slow to come up on the screen--an ad which only supported the web site I was looking at, but was not what I intended to look at--I would switch to another window and then the button for the window I had been on disappeared. I have also seen the button disappear when a site froze, even if it wasn't for a very long time. This also happened on a computer with IE7, but mainly when the site had frozen permanently. I also lost the button for a window I had been on when a popup ad came up.
On another site I was asked if this was taskbar grouping. It was not. Each button represents an individual window. Sometimes there are multiple tabs, but I try to avoid letting that happen.
I could not follow some of the advice given because this computer is at a library. The person who was in charge of the library's computers did not know what was going on.

I forgot how to come here Saturday but I posted this on another site:
I got on the computer about 30 minutes ago. It was the first time it had been turned on all day, but the Internet was already up and I just typed in the site I wanted to go to. The Internet was very, very slow. The button on the taskbar eventually disappeared but the window was still there. The site required me to select a sponsor before I could continue. The sponsor's ad came up as a popup (but very slowly to begin with, with just the blue border and the name of the site, the minimize button, the maximize button, and the red X at the top), with the toolbar so I could type in a new address. At that point, the taskbar button for the popup ad appeared, and so did the button for where I had been, but on the right instead of the left, which would be normal. No problems since then.
My responses on Monday on that other site to a response by someone who claimed none of that was a problem:
Firefox, not Explorer. And whoever was here and turned everything on must have clicked on the Firefox button. It was 12:59 and the library was supposed to open at 1:00. Nothing that happened during those first 10 minutes was "normal".
Well, it just quit. It said "Firefox is sorry" but they didn't tell me how I could get a copy of this report that will be sent. And it destroyed the stuff I had saved. Oh, sure, they act like they're doing me a great big favor by restoring the session. But the email is GONE.
It would be great if I could see what happened, and maybe it would be a clue to what's going on with the buttons.

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