Completely OT: help with my computer graphics??

[murph16]

I know someone here will know what's going on so I'm turning to you experts...(OK I admit it...truth is you're the only friends I got!!)

Anyway, since I upgraded to Windows XP Home from 98SE, everything is working beautifully. PT is swwweeeeet, e-mail fine, start menu clean, no crashes, etc. Everything except ONE LITTLE problem.
On the internet, on some sites that I regularly used before the XP upgrade, I'm getting blank square spaces with that little three-color logo/icon thing in the upper-left corner in places where there should be graphics. Not all the time...and sometimes it's for pictures, sometimes for Flash animations.
Thing is, it's not consistent...I can see some Flash presentations and some I can't (I'm 99.9% sure Flash Player is installed correctly...but isn't that included with Internet Explorer 6.0??)

I'm really confused.
I sometimes play these dumb animated word games that are part of BellSouth.net Internet Service. Since I upgraded to XP, the games don't work. The Bell South Internet Service Media Player screen has one of those icon/3-color logo thingies in the corner. I called Bell South Customer Service and they had no answers for me, so it doesn't seem like it's a typical 98SE to XP upgrade issue.

Anybody got any ideas?

I went to Macromedia.com and checked to make sure I had Flash and Shockwave installed correctly.
Been fishing around XP Preferences, Internet Explorer Preferences, etc.
Can't think of what else to check.

I appreciate your assistance.

Murph [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]