Java problem or Flash Problem...can't fix

Ok this may not seem like a big deal, but it's kind of annoying.

On many websites, let's say pogo.com to be specific, the ads on the page do not show up, instead there is just a plain grey box in place of them. I can not click on the box. This happens on several webpages I visit, but really only happens where ads should be displayed. I do not know of any games or other applets that fail to appear but it could be a possibility. I have checked several websites and none of the solutions seem to work.

I am using IE7 and running Windows XP.

Here is a screen shot to give you a better idea as to what I am talking about:

http://webpages.charter.net/krayzie993/Adproblem.jpg

 

that's kind of like a blessing in disguise...lol...What have you done to troubleshoot this?

 

I've pretty much followed help pages to play around with internet options, such as java, active x, and flash settings, but none of that seemed to work, so I reinstalled flash and that didn't seem to work. So I have no clue what else to try.

 

Did you try reseting all of your internet options back to defaults?