if ie7 can find Tahoma to display the html locally, why can't it use the same font to display the identical page online?

also, i based the webpage on a generic template from a well known site (top google link). i'd be surprised if they used fonts that don't work on ie7.

a similar problem happened recently when i direct linked to an image for ebay. the link only worked while the image was in cache. once the cache was cleared the link failed. i ended up using photo bucket to solve this problem, but it seems ie7 can interpret pages differently depending on what is in the cache that matches the items being loaded.