Parts of webpages not showing up in IE, videos not loading

I'm having some problems -- on certain websites, such as AOL.com and my local
news WHNT.com, the 'ads' and video and certain flash won't load. On CNN.com
none of the videos will load, nor will any of the font or anything show up no
the Video page, Now, on WHNT.com some of the flash will load, such as a
voting poll, but our "videos of the day" and other things won't load. As on
AOL.com, if I click on a story and it takes me to that page and, say, it's a
story and picture of a music artist, the picture won't load. There is no
little red "x" anywhere on the sites where things are missing -- it's just
completely blank, like there is nothing there. Also, there are little gray
banners on some sites that say "advertisement" but no ad - as if its blocked.
I have checked everything I can think of - active X controls are enabled,
firewall is off, cookies are allowed, pop ups are allowed, etc....I am out of
ideas and even my website manager at work couldn't figure out why it would
load some things and not others. help! this is driving me nuts!!

thanks

 

Always state your full Windows version (e.g., WinXP SP3; Vista SP1) whenever
you post to an IE newsgroup, please. Thank you.

 

Sorry, never done this before. Micro Win XP Pro 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build
2600

Is that all/right??

 

Could it be blocked? Some ad blockers actually change the HTML
which could account for both symptoms, e.g. both blank and replacement
of a site's images with its own generic ones.