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My IP address blocked by Vbulletin, .htaccess or what? (long, sorry)

My IP address starts with 173 and it is being blocked by a website
located at http://sadoun.net/forums. I can clear cache and still can't
access it. It just sits there an blinks and blinks and blinks. If I use
a dial-up connection, which gives me an IP starting with 17, I can
access the site with no problem.

You can simulate the problem I'm having by using an anonymizer such as
the-cloak.com or anonymouse.org. As reported by whatismyip.com,
the-cloak uses an IP address of 216 and anonymouse uses an IP address of
193 so whatever is blocking my IP address of 173 is also blocking 193
and 216.

I tried to get an answer from sadoun.net but I was never able to get
their webmaster to respond to my questions. I then discussed the issue
with tech support at the hosting service for sadoun.net (hostrocket.com)
and they assured me that they were not blocking IPs starting with 173.
They thought it might be something in the .htaccess file or something in
software being used by sadoun.net

I don't think it is .htaccess since that normally gives an error message
like "Access Forbidden" or some such. I presume that leaves vBulletin
which is the forum software used at sadoun.net/forums. I tried to ask
this question on the vBulletin forum but you have to be a licensed ($$$)
user to post questions there.

Background: Up to about a year ago ICANN had classified 173 (and
possibly 193 & 216) as a test IP and most servers would block it. At
that time, 173 was released for "commercial" use and Verizon FiOS (my
ISP) picked it for use with their subscribers. Perhaps there is
something somewhere that is causing 173 to be treated by certain
websites as a rogue (illegitimate) IP address and are just going to
continue to block it.

My question, finally :) , is there something in vBulletin that could be
blocking access to a block of IPs such as 173, 193, 216, etc. or is
there any other possible answer to this problem?

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