Thank You Hawaiian_Starman, Joseph Mina

Dear Hawaiian_Starman,
Your posts in the User Tips Library re: slow safari did the trick! Amazing difference in speed after I applied your solution.
Noticed one thing and thought I'd post the question. When entering addresses in the DNS server box you posted 3:
4.2.2.2
208.67.222.220 and 208.67.220.222 (separate lines)
Just wondering why the two different addresses?
Again - THANKS! for the great tip.
Gratefully, Kristi
G4/Quicksilver     733MH 1GB 160GB OS9.2.2 / OS10.4.9

Oh is that what you are referring to, sorry I should have searched for the original post.
DNS servers lookup the name you type for the URL address and then find the number associated with it, which are in the same format as the DNS server numbers. They are a lot like digital phone books for computers so the computers can find each other.
With that in mind, you really want to make sure you aren't using just any set of DNS servers, since you have to trust the DNS servers to give your computer the real address to a website and not lead you to a scam. The DNS servers provided by your internet service provider (ISP) are preferable, and though they can't make any guarantees, they do what they can to protect their DNS servers and make sure you aren't misled. Be wary of someone suggesting you change your servers to another set of numbers without researching and confirming where those numbers came from.
In that post, they tell you what each set of DNS server numbers refer to, though you should confirm that before using them. Also, it's not polite to use DNS servers without permission, so your ISP is the best choice and usually you computer should automatically set itself with the appropriate numbers.
One of the sets of DNS servers was attributed to OpenDNS (though they misspelled it OpenDSN a couple of times). I checked and it seems like OpenDNS wants you to use their DNS servers so you definitely have their permission. They claim it helps provide faster lookups and hence faster response in your web browser. You should check their website and some online reviews before using there DNS servers so you can decide whether to trust them as much as you trust your ISP. Their website has a FAQ that provides more info about DNS, what it is and what their own service provides.
I don't know anything about the OpenDNS service other than what I found out from researching them for this post. I used Google to find their website and learn a little bit more. You can do the same simply by double-clicking the word OpenDNS to select it in Safari, and then right-click (or Control-click) on it and choose "Search in Google".
Hope that helps.

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