They worked fine for me. Usually it is a component failure in windows that causes the little box with the shapes in it to appear. Did you recently uninstall/install anything that might've messed with shockwave? Try installing shockwave and see if that gets you anywhere. It could also be a java screwup of some sort, but it seems to be something with your computer that changed rather than the sites being down. Best of luck.

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