Thanks for the advice Blade & Sunshine.
I ran another scan for spyware, and surprisingly it found more than i expected. but even with those removed it made no difference whatsoever.
I have just cleared out my internet cache and set the max limit to 50mb. Let's hope it has an effect on performance.
It's weird, because once the page starts to load, halfway through the modem will just stop for about 10 seconds, as if it just "goes to sleep", and continue to load up the page again.
I'm on AOL and i also tried loading the sites in the AOL browser, but the problem still occurs. What browser is AOL based on, is it Internet Explorer?
If it is, then maybe switching to Firefox will make a difference, or will it? Let me know
Thanks again