I was having trouble with Safari not loading my pages. When I first ran the browser it would load about five pages normally, then it kept saying "Contacting http://www.anything.com" (i.e. any site) and never loaded a thing. So I opened the Console app and found these message:
2004-01-15 17:42:28.961 Safari[542] Conversion to encoding 30
failed for string "(? ?) iBook:private..."
So I figured the odd characters or the spaces in the name of my hard drive were causing some kind of conflict. When I changed it to a simple "iBook," it fixed the issue for me.
Mac OS X Hints
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20040116131012645