Web browsing fails to load correct URL, ignores /etc/hosts!! Daily issue

I’m at a loss. Please help. It is at the point that my internet experience is unusable. Every day when I try to load a common set of URLs, I get Feedburner pages instead, or another site. This happens with Firefox (actually Iceweasel) and Konqueror both, on Debian Lenny with KDE (and on previous Kubuntu 7.10 and 7.04 installations). Screenshot here of three misloads: http://picpaste.com/dns_issues.png For example, if I visit // I might get... www.nytimes.com // bbc.co.uk www.nytimes.com // "Feedburner: HTTP Status 400 - You must provide a feed uri" www.tuxmachines.org // "Feedburner: HTTP Status 400 - You must provide a feed uri" slashdot.org // del.icio.us del.cio.us // bbc.co.uk Note these are examples that change slightly every day, but overall there are pretty much always issues with NYTimes.com and TuxMachines.org, and I often get that Feedburner page. I was using OpenDNS but ...