I use IE6 and Firefox 2.0.04 (I even tried Safari for Windows) and all exhibit the same problems.
When a background is set for a page (.e.g., <BODY background="sky.jpg">), the background doesn't display - the background stays white.
If I go to web sites that have background colors or images (for example my iGoogle page), they display as plain white. This makes the internet a pretty monotoned place. Also, when I mouse over buttons/links that automatically create a dropdown menu, the menu is transparent and extremely hard to read and unusable. I have the latest video driver for my video card. I cannot figure out what's going on.
This seems to have started about a month or so ago after I downloaded an update or patch from Microsoft via Windows Update. I'm running Windows XP SP2.
I've run diagnostics on my video card (dxdiag) and it comes up clean. I"m using DirectX 9.0c.
Anyone have any idea what's going on here? Microsoft broke my browsers!