I know of one thing that sometimes blows up on my machine, the javascripts at the bottom (big panda and the web counter) tend to time out if there is no connection to the internet and kill both my netscape and msie.... when im not connected to the net....
otherwise i dont know of any problem. Maybe you have javascript turned off and the tripod banner thingy doesn't like it...
let me know if you still have problems and ill pop up a no java version to see if that is the case.....