Re: IE6 and images appearing as red x's

I have searched this board and many others to find out why when I use IE6 I get red x's instead of images sometimes (not always) on certain webpages. This page being one of them and also on the Microsoft site. I do not use Norton firewall or AV and show pictures and animations is checked in my internet options.
I did a repair on IE6, etc. but the problem remained. I deleted my cookies, deleted all temporary internet files (including offline content) and the problem still remained. For many years I have always had Netscape set as my default browser. I am still using Netscape Communicator 4.79 ( I hate to change something that I've had very little problems with). Anyway, today I decided to set internet explorer as my default browser and for some reason the problem seems to have vanished. Does anyone know why this would be? Also, is there a way to permanently set the encoding in IE6 to western european (windows)- Netscape allows to set a default character set but I don't see this option in internet explorer. Any suggestions on this matter would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

 

IE toolbar View>encoding.

 

I know that I can change the encoding like that but it goes back to another setting the moment I leave the page. The setting doesn't stick from page to page. Thanks for the suggestion though. Right now I'm not having the problem as long as I keep IE6 as my default browser.