Can't connect using safari or firefox but can with Adium...HELP!!!!

Hey, I recently got a iMac G5 with a 20" monitor (I bought it myself after saving up yay) and for the first couple of weeks, it worked fine, but in the past week, I cannot connect to the internet using any web browser, even when I dual boot to windows (If only the Sims 2 for PC was compatible with OS X) but it says I'm connectedto the internet. However, when I try to go on an instant messaging client, such as Adium or MSN, I can chat to my friends and everything. I have tried everything I can think of, even reinstalling OS X, so any help would be appreciated soon. I have been a windows user all my (short) life and have programmed in it since the tender age of 10 and still do, if only to help with my aspiration to become a game programmer (on the way), and I need the internet to supply me with new hacks (to change windows) and tips (to show up my teachers in VB). Oh, and by the way, it is a netgear router if that helps, and my dad (the administrator of the network) is running Vista.
Also, my brother can't get online at all and my Mum couldn't.

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The error message I get is 'Safari cannot connect to the page "livepage.apple.com" because it cannot connect to the serve "livepage.apple.com"'

Yours confuzzledly, Richard

Oh, no, wait...It's a intel iMac...sorry

Power Cycle your network setup.

D3v1L80Y said:

Power Cycle your network setup.

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Agreed. Something seems wrong on the Network end, Router, Modem, since Adium will connect.

How are you connected to the Internet? What Modem, Router and ISP?

I've had that happen to me where it seems like the internet goes down but I am still connected to gtalk. A power cycle solves the problem

Yay!

Thanks dudes!!! My dad can't do it today, but he will tomorow and we shall see ...The I might be able to get guitar tabs without moving to a different room on a whim
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Oh, and trpnmonkey41...Nice pic!!!
Gotta go and program now!!!

dtravis7 said:

Agreed. Something seems wrong on the Network end, Router, Modem, since Adium will connect.

How are you connected to the Internet? What Modem, Router and ISP?

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It's ADSL, the Router is NETGEAR, and my ISP is AOL
SO MANY CAPITALISED ABBREVIATIONS!!!!!
so, it's the DYE with the SHFHWFE and the VDFEYNFYKJSBFGHFN, synergising with the GVBEKEVRFYJNNFYWKMDNHEURJNVCGUFNTUEUFJDJHVYETNGUGHYUGHYEYF

MWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

INTRODUCING...THE iRack!!!!!!!

Thanks so much for the help!!!
My dad realised it was to do with the router so he mucked around with it, and it worked

YAY!!


quadruple post? never seen that before...