I was going to say that it's because you're using a crap microsoft product, but I guess you're also using Mozilla. Best solution: don't use windows
There is a simple test that should help us find the problem. Log out and see if you can see the sticky notices that you could not when logged in. If not, then it means you might have something locally that is effecting it. If you do see them, then it is most likely a server issue with our site =/