Unable to locate server even though wireless is connected.

Greetings All
I've been having an odd issue with my wrt54G.   My wife and I have 2 laptops wirelessly connected to the router (win xp media certer ver and win xp home ver).
In addition we have 3 win 98 boxes and 1 notebook using xp tablet edition all of which use ethernet. 
Periodically both of our notebooks that are wirelessly connected will periodically give an "unable to locate server" message when when using IE6.  I tried Firefox also to attempt to narrow it down and the same problem is present.  Oddly though both notebooks still have our wireless signal connected.  I have proxy and both firewalls (xp and symantec) off on these 2 notebooks.  They connect using wpa-tkip with mac filtration off ssid broadcast off.   Usually we can cold boot our laptops and get reconnected again although sometimes it will happen again almost immediately.  I can't remember if we are able to browse network drives (using our wireless notebooks) when this happens.  None of our ethernet connected pc's have this problem when this is going on.
I have rebooted the cable modem and the wrt54g and this doesn't seem to matter. 
My firmware version is v3.03.6, Jan. 6, 2005v3.03.6.
Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to offer.

Okay the problem has resurfaced. When this is happening (no web access, no nntp access) I am still able to ping websites that I am unable to open in IE or Mozilla. Also I am still able to listen on streaming audio during these times of no web access. I am also unable to connect to my router's config page while this is happening.
While web access is being denied I am still able to connect to other pc's on my home network.
I'm beginning to think that there must be some kind of http, https and NNTP traffic during certain times but I cannot find anything obvious in my router's setting via the web tool.
This baffles me. I am inclined to to think it's something other than just http and nntp traffic that's being stopped. The reason I say this is because I have had to reboot again following and initial reboot that restored web access and then denied it again in just a matter minutes.
Maybe my router is croaking out?
Thanks

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