Browser is hanging up on a couple of sites, including MS download for Windows XP SP3?

I just installed qwest with windows live for internet and it included IE7 which I apparently needed, so I installed that from their cd. I've uninstalled netzero and defragged my HD. Everything is working great except when I go to SIRIUS.com, the page hangs up. I'm on Windows XP Service Pak 2, but trying to download SP3 from microsoft it hangs up right when trying to start the download. I've retried several times over 2 different days, but same thing. Any suggestions? Thanks

2008-09-23T11:30:32Z

A qwest tech support guy suggested loading and using mozilla firefox and it works great. Not sure I'll go back to Internet explorer considering the problems I've had.

Anonymous2008-09-22T10:35:47Z

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@ first don't update to sp3
Honestly it is so buggy and full of microsoft spywares
About the site it may be heavy one try using opera 9.52 (amazing unlimited safe web bullet like browsing ) or try a web proxy