I feel bad bumping this up from so long ago, but the problem resolved itself

and now is back.

In full force. With nearly every regularly-updating website I visit, which is (lets face it) most of them.
I figure it has something to do with George, perhaps... although he was peachy until yesterday.
So I returned to the thread and asked Dan how about proxies, and he showed me mine... it is already off.
(Do you want me to move this to Bits and Bytes? The problem is with my 'puter, not the site...)