Web site hangs when opened

Question

I've posted a web site gallery, and everyone who's tried it reports that it opens the page, but no images load - until they press 'reload' on their browser. I always experience the same, on both platforms. It DOES load images instantly when I press the 'reload' though. Any idea why this would happen? The web site host has no idea (and they're usually pretty good).
www.bartonephotography.com/Weddings
Thanks
Laurence Bartone

Answer 1

Removing that had no effect, but I think its possibly a code issue, though it effects both PCs and Macs. I suspect it has to do with checking for something, but I wouldnt know.
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<br />On the other hand, Dreamweaver, showing the page code, shows the following (notice the errors about 4 lines down) problem regarding the language. The line thats
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<br />The last part: lang=en xml:lang=en&gt;
<br />Is indicated in red underline. Dont know if it can be removed or even if its indeed incorrect (Dreamweaver indicates its a problem). The error says that the lang tag is not supported in Explorer and Netscape. Of course, I'm running Safari! Heres more of the code, from the top:
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<br /><?xml version="1.0"?>
<br />"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
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<br />body,html {
<br />margin-top:0;
<br />margin-left:0;
<br />margin-right:0;
<br />margin-bottom:0;
<br />height: 100%;
<br />width: 100%;
<br />}.... and so on.