Unwanted UK Advertisements & Search Results

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I'm using a Dell Latitude X200 running on Windows 2000 SP4 and Internet Explorer 6.0.2800.1106. I'm located in the USA and access primarily US-based websites. My regional settings are all set for English (United States).

Whenever I open a search website (such as Iwon.com, Google.com, ask.com, etc), the majority of the Banner advertisements and search results that I receive are for zzzzzzz.co.uk sites.

I clear my cookie cache and temporary internet files almost daily, I run AdAware and Spybot religously, and I'm relatively knowledgeable about most settings that would influence this type of result. Is there just an influx of UK-based web-advertising and search results on the net during this past year, or could be there a hidden/buried setting that I'm missing in the registry that could influence this type of result from my web searches or pages that I am accessing?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.
 
Just to clarify--- the sites that I'm receiving are not specifically "zzzzzzz.co.uk".... they are just various types of related sites with the ".co.uk" designation.
 
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TomPhilly said:
Arnold- thanks for the msg. I've been running AdAware and SpyBot a few
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times a week with the most current data files and still seems like every
search site that I go to thinks that I'm browsing from the UK and want links
to UK vendors and websites.
Would there be any cookie files or index.dat files that could somehow have
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information that would lead a site to think that I'm browsing from the UK?
 
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