As liquid said earlier, check your DNS settings vs. the system that works.
Any chance you've customized your hosts file? (\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts)
Are you logging the sites that don't work? If you remember a couple, try opening up a cmd window and doing an nslookup on them. Resolve?
Unless you prefer sacrificial remedies I'd pause on the reinstall. Troubleshoot a couple destinations that aren't working. Reinstalling will fix any local settings problem, at least temporarily, but if it comes back it'll be the same mystery. It doesn't sound like you have much trouble duplicating the problem on the old system, so keep it up.
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