Webmail errors on non-Mac machines

Since joining .Mac in 2002, I've accessed my .Mac webmail on Windows and Linux terminals at work (in DC, Maryland, and now Texas). Without fail, at least six times a day, the Webmail interface returns an error when I send or reply to a message, telling me that a problem has been encountered and that I'm being redirected to the .Mac mail home page.
I can often tell when the error is about to occur, because the dropdown box in the GO TO: mail list will have gone blank. Sometimes there is no warning and I'm told "Your message could not be delivered."
Any idea what causes this error? I'm relatively sure it's not machine specific unless this problem is common to several terminals.
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.3) Accessing .Mac from a Linux box
iMac   Mac OS X (10.4.3)   Accessing .Mac from a Linux box

Strange things happened with template fields I had
left empty (they refuse to delete). They produced '?'
as if they failed to load. Also one template text
field with multiple lines of text and one line empty
inserted '?'s in the empty line.
ideas??
When you ask a question like this, please provide a url so that someone can see what you are talking about. One cause of question marks is the wrong settings on your ftp program. See this note:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebchars.html

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