mozilla/netscape die when on a shockwave enabled web site

[Bishop, Dean]

Good morning,

  i have been running into a bit of a problem in that whenever i visit a web
site that has shockwave content, the browser just dies a quiet death.  This
same site works fine when i use the machine locally.
  this occurs in both mozilla and netscape (various versions).
  i tried removing the shockwave plugin and the browsers didn't die anymore,
but i also, obviously, did not get the full content of the web sites.

  Any thoughts on how to rectify this?

thanks in advance,
dean