IE8 logging into a spastic browser session

Every so often when I open my browser I end up with a spastic session, where the island is all pixelated white blocks, and part of the data gets loaded on the inventory bar, it always stops loading data at stone and marble, they read 0 while the rest is correct. I'm not sure if there is bad database query that gets hung up, but the only resolution seems to be closing the browser and reopening it and then logging in again. It acts like it used that failed login attempt to cache my data, and then my second login attempt was able to use that freshly cached data because it is usually a pretty quick login.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this with Firefox as well, but I just saw it again with IE8 today so I thought I'd report the data I have.