i don't have any experience with ad-free, but if you're running spybot, check to make sure that it didn't lock the hosts file. that might be the cause of the hosts file error you're receiving.
also, i had a friend who had the same problem with IE's rexing. the solution was to reinstall (upgrade) IE...
just my two cents. i hope it helps.
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