Internet Explorer just stopped browsing....

For the past week, I've noticed a strange occurrance with my IE 6 browser. It's a strange scenario but here goes.

IE has just stopped browsing all of a sudden, but this only happens while I am connected to AOL through my Cable connection through my wireless router. When I turn on my laptop and log on, IE works fine, no problems. When I log on AOL, I can no longer browse at all with IE. This doesn't affect my ability to browse with Firefox, and of course, I can browse easily with AOL's browser, too. It's just IE that has this issue.

Occasionally, an error in IE pops up saying "Internet Explorer could not open the search page" or something to the like, and sometimes if I try to simply type in something like www.yahoo.com, it will cycle through in the status bar working saying:

Looking up http://www.www.yahoo.com.com
Looking up http://www.www.yahoo.com.edu
Looking up http://www.yahoo.com.org
etc.

I can access an https secure site (for work) in IE... Also, I just noticed that if I have a site up on AOL, it is THEN that I can bring that site, and that site only up in IE. Told ya it was strange. Anyone know what's going on, and what I can do?...I did a lil' research and someone mentioned it may be a DNS problem, but I dunno how to tell if it is, nor what to do to correct it.

 

AOL is evil that way.