Flight of Fantasy

I've been plagued with connection problems lately and I've pretty much exhausted my own tech knowledge. My router's connecting to the 'net, my PC is speaking to the router but for some reason every so often my browser just refuses to load pages. Cue much bad language and a strong temptation to toss my PC out the window. IE tells me there's a problem with the winsock catalog but a winsock repair tool, LSP tool and even fixing TCP/IP doesn't seem to help. I think that the cause may not be software related but actual black magic.

Anyway, here's a lovely Dale Arden painting from Dan Morton.