I just got a new Dell Notebook, an Inspiron 5160 with a Pentium 4, 2.8gh cpu and 512 megs of Ram. Problem is, I can't live without my Homestarruner or Shockwave in general, and everytime I try to load a webpage with ANY sort of flash media running on it, the page loads half-way and then just seems to give up. Any ideas? I have Flash 7, and my wireless connection is nearly always running at top speed. I just don't get it.

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