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Did we ever figure out WHY this happens?

I am getting a few of these every day now, and know other have also. I have rebooted and cleaned out my cache, even one of mine didn't show. It seems to pic a few photos in a forum, yet when I restart, it will pick other photos, I'm so confused! Help anyone?

The problem is in the "referer" field that your browser normally would send to a website. Some firewall and anti-virus software (for no good reason) disable the referers in your browser, and this can only be enabled through the firewall or anti-virus software.

In short, Dave's Garden and the Plants Database REQUIRE referers in order for you to view pictures. This is to protect the copyright on the images that our members upload in good faith to the site.

Referers are used to prevent thieves from stealing the images. It doesn't work 100%, but it's far more than any other site does.

Directions to enable referrers in Norton and Zone Alarm are shown below. If you
are using a different product, please consult your product's documentation to
enable the referrers.

Norton Internet Security

* Open Norton Internet Security.
* Click "Options".
* Click "Internet Security".
* Click the "Advanced Options" button.
* Click the "Privacy" tab.
* Change Referrer (under Browsing Privacy) to "Permit"
* Click "OK".
* Click "OK" again.
* Close Norton Internet Security and the pictures should show up.

Zone Alarm

* Open the Zone Alarm configuration panel by double clicking on the Zone
Alarm icon on the bottom right of your Windows Taskbar, or by opening
Zone Alarm from the "Start" and "Programs" menu.
* Select the "Privacy" menu on the left hand side.
* Click on the button labelled "Custom", in the "Cookie Control" section.
* Remove the tick from "Remove Private Header Information".
* Click "OK", then close the Zone Alarm configuration panel. The pictures
should work fine now.

Don't mean to be comletely stupid here, but I have no firewall, on plain old dial-up. Looked at my Norton Anti-viris, is there somewhere else I'm supposed to be looking?

Dave, I know you're a busy man, maybe someone else can help!

viola, your Norton is causing the problem, most likely. In the post above, I outlined some things to check in Norton.

Dave