You mean youre getting the little "X" window thing?
What kind of firewall is it? I downloaded a free firewall of downloads.com and it works beautifully... Sygate personal firewall, I believe it is called...
Also, you can go to new, previously never visited before sites, right? I mean, you dont just have RDO as a favorites link, or you dont just pick it from your list of sites previously visited in the address bar, do you? If you do, then you might have accidentally set a proxy setting that intereferes with cable connections like yours and mine...
I have a 3.5Mbt connection, and I think it takes just as long as yours to load! Not fair! Damn you COMCAST!!!!! *Wails into the sky*