sounds like your Google homepage is cached, and your having an IP Address problem or DNS problem. As far as you IM working, I would have to say that it's not using DNS to find it's server, OR your have it's statically mapped (whether from your IM program you're using or elsewhere...).
Either way, you need to find out what IP configuration other computers have (that are working) on the same network, and then compare it to yours. That will lead you in the right direction. (You should have a basic understanding of how IP addresses work,... do you?).
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