help with strange browser behavior

[mike]

I'm hoping someone has run into a similar problem and can help me out.
Basically, what I'm seeing is that when accessing certain (just a
few)websites, the HTML code gets mangled by the time it reaches my
broswer. I say this because on those few websites that are not
rendered properly, I can "view source" in IE and it's perfectly clear
why the website doesn't look right; certain lines of HTML code are
just missing!

I'm running Win ME ( 4.90.3000 ), and I get the same behavior whether
I use IE, Netscape or Opera to look at the website! BUT, if I look at
the same website using my laptop instead (Win XP) everything looks
fine.

Both computers are sitting behind a D-Link 614+ wireless router. The
desktop PC where I experience the problem has an Ethernet connection
to the router, the Laptop uses wireless. It is my vague impression
that the desktop PC started exhibiting this behavior around the time I
installed the router. However, I have tried reverting to the
pre-router configuration, i.e., ethernet from desktop PC direct to the
cable modem, and the problem did not go away.

Of course, I have flushed all my temp internet files. I reinstalled
IE (although since other browsers show the same problem, I didn't
expect much from that). Any ideas short of re-installing my OS ???

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Mike Sollins

 

[Gail Low]

Over time this happens. I think websites are written more and more
using new forms of html your old broswrr does not understand.

 

[Michael Sollins]

Gail, thanks for your reply. I think there must something else going on
here though... Note that these websites are ones that I USED TO BE ABLE to
view OK. I have been running IE version 6 for a long time; for months
everything was fine, then the problem appeared. Also, the laptop XP
machine (that does see the websites OK) is also running IE v. 6. I'm still
hoping someone will have seen this problem...

-Mike