BleepingComputer.com: Various Browser Windows Crash / Freeze

Hope this is the right place to post this, and I'll try to explain as best as I can. I've got an hp Pavillion laptop (1 year old), Windows XP, Symantec Antivirus/Firewall, and use either IE7 or Firefox for browsing. For the past few days, certain websites won't work in either of those browsers (we have a desktop, and all works fine there). An example, pogo.com, which I have been a frequent user of on this computer, now will load but when the pop-up window for a game opens, none of the links/buttons (including the red X to close the window) will function. I have to ctr-alt-del to get the game window to close, which will then close any other tabs I happen to have open at the time. No error messages show up in the task bar, and I can still move the cursor, but can't click on anything. I would normally think this was tied to this particular website, but if I go into my Control Panel and click on the Java icon, I can't click on anything in the window that opens either, so really not sure what's going on?

I have uninstalled all java programs and updates, and reinstalled as directed. Now have Java 6 Update 3. I have tried searching to see if I could find a solution to this problem myself, but couldn't find anything related. I ran a full virus scan last night and nothing was harmful was detected. Hoping any of you will have some great suggestions as to what I could try to fix this problem?

Thanks so much in advance!
~Jenn

This post has been edited by JennL: 11 October 2007 - 01:11 PM

Nevermind - I've gotten it taken care of. Don't think anyone was planning on responding anyway

In case anyone's wondering it was actually a problem with my mouse driver. Reinstalled that and everything is good to go. Evidently it wasn't anything to do with Java, but whenever I opened a window that didn't have keyboard prompts it was stuck open.

I'm glad to hear you were able to resolve your problem, JennL.
Thank you for posting back, with what it took to fix it.
It might prove helpful, to someone who develops the same problem.