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If you're using a Modem / router ... sometimes they can seem to get a little 'tired' so i turn mine off for 5 minutes while i have a cup of tea if something like this happens, its quick, easy and painless first thing i try :) Also, if your skype test call works well, tell your other party...

One of the great things about Firefox is its huge world of addons and features and its of course it is open source, free software. There are several things you (or anyone) can do to lessen the risk of infection... digitally i mean :) Ideally, use a Linux Live CD, Linux Mint is good, tho...

or cheap 5.1 or 7.1 USB soundcard .. off Ebay

as a quick / cheap 'bodge' there are cheap USB soundcard dongles on Ebay for a few pounds / dollars which will prob give you working reliable sound - until you get the thing fixed

if all else fails, try a Linux CD or even attempt to fix the bootloader with the lovely rEFIt app... perhaps boot the .iso version (burnt as an image) and install this nice graphical boot loader / chooser. good luck..

The strangely named ' Lubbo's Mac Fan control ' should do the trick, double check its XP compatible tho... i haven't got XP ! Good Luck... http://sourceforge.net/projects/lubbofancontrol/

The Windows drivers for Mac's are on the OS X install discs, (certainly are on Snow Leopard anyway) and do it that way. Apple has has probs with the bootcamp drivers no downloading. Once Windows is running with the bootcamp drivers off the OS X disc, they will get updated to the latest version...

i know you dont fancy the expense of buying a Mac, but to be fair, i would just buy one of the early Intel Macs - or a good old example of the PPC based ones, one that will run Leopard would be reasonably applicable, there are plenty about, (early OS X) experience can be had on some quite...

Yes, agreed, opendns is a good way to do what you require. check the privacy statement from them before you do, though.

Have you tried Click2Flash ? it plays Youtube videos in Quicktime player. sounds like Safari has broken. i would re install Safari. Safari cannot normally be uninstalled from OS X, but an app called AppZapper can.. AppZapper says it cant remove Safari, but tweak about in AppZapper, then it will...